Bibliography: Heraldic Treatise for Anne of Bohemia. Attributed Arms and Historiography as Part of the Medieval Political Struggle

This dataset is a bibliography for P JAC Heraldic Treatise for Anne of Bohemia. Attributed Arms and Historiography as Part of the Medieval Political Struggle. Attributed arms played an important role in medieval representation. These arms were retrospectively attributed to ancient heroes and served as a link to mythical history. Current research has dealt with this type of heraldry only marginally, without recognizing its relevance to narratives about national origins. A key source is one theoretical treatise on heraldry commissioned by the English Queen Anne of Bohemia, the Tractatus de Armis. This treatise thus represents a crucial insight into the political thought of the late Middle Ages, when heraldry served as part of propaganda during conflicts such as the Hundred Years' War. Attributed arms were not simply cosmetic or peripheral, but their legitimising potential made them an important tool in power struggles. This project points to the important and unexpected role that attributed arms played in the construction and development of pre-modern, and subsequently modern, national identities. This dataset is a project bibliography in two separate files, one in .csv and one in .ris. This bibliography can be imported to Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/) for easier use. Readme file with metadata and instructions is available.