Gerard Marí i Brull

Medieval heraldry: a cultural creation for a secular society

Heráldica medieval: una creación cultural para una sociedad laica

Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages

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This paper aims to show how Heraldry is a medieval cultural phenomenon of first importance created and developed outside the ecclesiastical world, through the analysis of three specific aspects: its origins, the language for the heraldic description and the ways of transmission of its knowledge.