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Appleton Studios

David B. Appleton studies, researches, teaches, and writes about heraldry, and through his blog, he shares his heraldic knowledge with us, as well as through publications and presentations.

David B. Appleton is open to questions from his readers and provides advice on heraldic topics in which he specializes.

His blog is Blog.AppletonStudios.com and his website is AppletonStudios.com, from which he offers his services related to the world of heraldry, its dissemination, and knowledge.

Since 2009, David B. Appleton's heraldic blog has been an endless source of knowledge, images, ideas, curiosities, original reflections, and links to heraldic sites selected by him.

Heraldry: Musing on an esoteric topic

David B. Appleton stands out for his continuous analysis of all types of heraldic manifestations, which he finds everywhere, in the world we live in: from those we have inherited from ancient times to the fiercely current, from books to cinema, from fashionable clothing to urban furniture, from east to west and north to south, including those that appear in logos and emblems, those using traditional techniques and those created or disseminated through new technologies, on ships, sports cars, and airplanes, on porcelain, facades, and stained glass, on television, on t-shirts and coins, in auctions and universities, in comics and sports, etc. with a systematic publication rhythm, more than 2 posts per week, nothing heraldic escapes the record and genuine analysis of David B. Appleton on Blog.AppletonStudios.com, which I highly recommend.

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Categories: Link, Interpreted, Personal, Coat of arms, Without divisions, Freehand, Soft metal, Illuminated, Outlined in sable, Canting, Heraldry and heralds, Argent, Azure, Gules, Vert, Chevronel, Between, Apple, Slipped and Leaved.

External resources:

• Interpretation of his coat of arms.
• Interpretation by Xavier García at Appleton Studios.
• Interpretation by Xavier García at Dibujo Heráldico with his blazon in English and Spanish.

Root: Appleton, David B..

The collaborative blog Heraldica Nova was founded in 2013 by Torsten Hiltmann as part of the Dilthey Project «The Performance of Coats of Arms», funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation through their initiative «Focus on the Humanities».

Based at the University of Münster, the blog aims to study heraldry from the perspective of cultural history.

Starting point

By the late Middle Ages, coats of arms were everywhere: carved in stone or wood, depicted on textiles or stained glass, and displayed in both public and private spaces.

Coats of arms, which began as arbitrary symbols adopted by knights in the 12th century, evolved into a complex and powerful system of symbolic representation used by men and women from various social classes, as well as by states, kingdoms, regions, institutions, groups, and more, transcending their initial role as mere symbols of identity.

An underused resource

Despite their historical significance, the creators of this blog argue that academic history and historians have not fully utilized the rich potential of heraldic sources to provide insights into families, lineages, relationships, identities, authorities, and hierarchies, nor to explore modes of symbolic and visual representation and communication. This lack of exploration applies to historical periods from the Middle Ages onwards.

Objectives of the blog

Therefore, the primary goal of Heraldica Nova is to highlight the potential of heraldic sources for modern historical science and encourage their use. To achieve this, the blog serves as:

• A platform for sharing and discussing ideas, hypotheses, and observations among historians and heraldists, each contributing their respective perspectives.
• A resource hub, providing links, databases, information, images, tools, and more. For example, within this area, their list of digitized armorials is particularly noteworthy, including highlights such as: [Urfe; Century XV], [Ingeram, H.; 1459], and the roll of arms of [Edward IV of England; 1461].

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Categories: Link and Heraldry and heralds.

External links:

• Julia Ziegler, Dear heraldists: How did you learn to blazon?.
• Dear Mr. Salmerón.

Internet addresses:

• Heralds International.
• Heralds International, Facebook group
• Professional Heraldry, Facebook group

I was honored with their announce of my incorporation to Heralds International, the announce was the following:

• «Dr. Antonio Salmeron has recently joined Heralds International as a Member Artist and so we thought we would feature some of his work. A longer article will follow later but Dr. Salmeron has described his work thus»:
• «My style as a heraldic artist is clear, symbolic and methodical. Clear because my work searches pieces which transmit energy and vital force to the owner, I think that a coat of arms should be a source of light and joy and an expression of freedom. Symbolic because coats of arms must be a representation of its bearer, his/her ideals, motivations, history and anything he/she might want to display. Methodical because heraldic art is founded on a science, the so called science of heraldry».
• «We look forward to featuring more of his work very soon».

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Categories: Link and Heraldry and heralds.

Jueju.es is my project to translate Jué jù poems from the Táng dynasty (from the 7^th to the 10th century) and is aimed at learning the Chinese language. To this end, the translations of the poems, with meter but without rhyme, seek an isomorphism between the original poem in Chinese and its translation into Spanish.

This isomorphism allows us to associate, through a color scheme, each Chinese character and its pronunciation with 1 or 2 words in Spanish, which allows you to learn the Chinese language through its classic poets: Wáng Wéi, Li Bái, Dù Fu, Mèng Hàorán, Xi Birén, Yú Shìnán, Li Duan, Li Pín, Li Shangyin, Liú Chángqing, Wáng Zhihuàn, Zhang Hù, Zhang Jiulíng, etc.

Also, in jueju.es The poems are accompanied by vocabulary tables in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, pinyin pronunciation and translation into English and Spanish, drawings with pictograms and ideograms, derivation diagrams for compound characters, tonal schemes to help with the intonation of accents, explanatory texts and my own illustrations of the poems in ink and watercolor.

Below are, in PDF format, 2 pages of my translation of the poem «The Song of Geshu» by the poet Xi Birén dedicated to General Geshu Han, both of the Tang dynasty. I have selected this poem, from among the dozens that make up the project jueju.es, because it is especially heroic with its 7 stars, the night, the knife and the horses.

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Categories: Link and PDF.

Kevin MacLeod provides on his website incompetech.com music licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license, version 3.0, (CreativeCommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Kevin states that there are several reasons why he offers this type of free license, for example, because the cost of sharing his music is not high and the benefits are many, and because there are music schools without funds, filmmakers who need soundtracks for their films but cannot afford them. In response to this, Kevin believes that traditional copyright is ineffective and that is why he chose a license like «Creative Commons». He believes that if creative works are protected so rigidly that they become impossible to share and his art cannot be experienced by people, then it serves no purpose in society.

The following video shows an example of a soundtrack, with music by Kevin MacLeod, for a video about a coat of arms.

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Category: Link.

Dr. Marianne Steinbauer provides, under a conventional license, at Pia-Frauss.de exceptionally beautiful typefaces. Typefaces with such suggestive names as «MalaTesta», «MitreSquare», «SonOfTime», «Tycho'sElegy», «DeiGratia», «EtBoemieRex», «FranciscoLucas», «JaneAusten», «Love'sLabour», «Tagettes», «Tycho'sRecipe», «WirWenzlaw», «XalTerion», «Xenippa», «XiBeronne», «Xiparos» o «Xirwena».

Example of EtBoemieRex use by Dr. Marianne Steinbauer.

Personally authorized

Dr. Marianne Steinbauer has personally authorized me to use them, for which I sincerely thank her. As shown in the previous image of a heraldic catalogue where the font called «EtBoemieRex» is used.

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Category: Link.