El presente volumen contiene estudios de diversos especialistas dedicados a temas como familia y linaje, posicion social y aspiracion, ceremonial y expresion de poder y autoridad en la Inglaterra medieval, prestando especial atencion a las cuestiones de heraldica. Se analizan textos y manuscritos pero tambien joyas, efigies, monedas, vasijas, etc. Se incluyen los siguientes trabajos: David Crouch, "The Historian, Lineage and Heraldry 1050-1250" (pp. 17-38); Peter Coss, "Knighthood, Heraldry and Social Exclusion in Edwarian England" (pp. 39-68); Caroline Shenton, "Edward III and the Symbol of the Leopard" (pp. 69-82); Adrian Ailes, "Heraldry in Medieval England: Symbols of Politics and Propaganda" (pp. 83-104); Frederique Lachaud, "Dress and Social Status in England before the Sumptuary Laws" (pp. 105-124); Marian Campbell, "Medieval Founders' Relics: Royal and Episcopal Patronage at Oxford and Cambridge Colleges" (pp. 125-142); Brian and Moira Gittos, "Motivation and Choice: The Selection of Medieval Secular Effigies" (pp. 143-168); Nigel Saul, "Bold as Brass: Secular Display in English Medieval Brasses" (pp. 169-194); Fionn Pilbrow, "The Knights of the Bath: Duing to Knighthood in Lancastrian and Yorkist England" (pp. 195-218); Caroline Barron, "Chivalry, Pageantry and Merchant Culture in Medieval London" (pp. 219-242); y John Watts, "Looking for the State in Later Medieval England" (pp. 243-268)

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