Recently, while watching Powell-Peralta’s Future Primitive, something I’d taken for granted in my youth hit me with unexpected clarity: the iconography of skateboarders isn’t far removed from medieval heraldry. The two seem like they belong on different planets—one born of knights and genealogical rolls, the other of concrete and rebellious energy—yet both compress identity into a … Continue reading Boards and Banners: How Skate Decks Echo Medieval Heraldry
Tag: Heraldry
Blazon of William Blethyn’s Armorial Achievements
Arms recorded on William Blethyn's Pedigree Roll A couple years ago I posted the William Blethyn pedigree roll with the promise of transcribing it. I'm a little behind schedule in following through with that, but I would like to make an attempt to blazon the arms attributed to him. Arms: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Gules, three chevronnels argent … Continue reading Blazon of William Blethyn’s Armorial Achievements
You’d Think …
A resounding hear, hear to David B. Appleton for this post on his blog: You'd Think ...: I mean, really, it's our national coat of arms, the arms of the United States of America. We've been using it for more than 200 years. And it's not a complex coat of arms, consisting as it does … Continue reading You’d Think …
Pimbley’s Dictionary of Heraldry
Pimbley's dictionary of heraldry: Pimbley, Arthur Francis: Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Wisconsin - Madison and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.archive.org/details/pimbleysdiction00pimbgoog
The heraldic fraud (II)
I got one of these certificates from a vendor in a mall back in the nineties (before I knew better) that purported to tell the history of my surname. I keep it to remind me how easy it is to be taken advantage of. If any positive can come from the experience, I did gain … Continue reading The heraldic fraud (II)
Assumption of Arms
Over the past several years, I've become quite a fan of Heraldry. I remember stories and seeing pictures growing up of the "family crest". I was even duped by a kiosk at a local mall into paying money for a copy of my family's crest, which, by the way, didn't look anything like the one … Continue reading Assumption of Arms
