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'And no recently assumed arms...':
Urban Citizens and their Heraldry in Late Medieval Germany
Dr Marcus Meer
This talk explores the heraldic practices of fifteenth-century burgesses in German-speaking cities. While this group included members of the urban elite, who bore coats of arms not in emulation of but in self-proclaimed equivalence with the nobility, wider parts of urban society, too, proudly displayed their heraldry – often to the dismay of established 'patricians' – in town houses, guild and town halls, funeral processions, and parish churches as key stages for the representation and construction of urban identity.
Marcus Meer is a Research Fellow in Medieval History at the German Historical Institute London. He obtained is PhD at the University of Durham as a Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar and holds an MSt from the University of Oxford and BA from the University of Bielefeld.
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