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- From: brandon@gauss.math.brown.edu (Joshua Brandon)
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- In-Reply-To: Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:51:02
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:40:17 GMT
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- Tadhg did write:
- >
- > One of Laurel's oft-repeated maxims is "We follow the general practices,
- > not the exceptions", and red bends and chiefs on blue fields were
- > exceptions, not general practices; considered in the context of western
- > European heraldry as a whole, regional practices such as green mounts on
- > blue fields, however much they may have been the height of fashion in
- > Hungary or wherever, were still exceptions rather than general practices.
- >
- > I have made a modest contribution in that directio with my "Ten Word
- > Blazon Test", the rationale for which is "if they did it a lot, they had a
- > term for it; if it takes you a lot of words to describe it, then they
- > didn't have a term for it, and so they probably didn't do it a lot, and so
- > it probably isn't good style".
-
- 1) None of the things you mentioned above fail your test.
-
- 2) Ten Words in which language? German heraldry has words for a number of
- field divisions and charges that do not occur in Anglo-French heraldry, and
- probably other things as well. Why should Anglo-Norman blazoning practice
- be the determining factor?
-
- ---Simon
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