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[caption id="attachment_173" align="alignright" width="300"] A herald on a diplomatic mission: summoning the inhabitants of the city of Rouen in behalf of Charles VII, king of France (Paris, BnF, fr. 5054, fol. 172r)[/caption]The biggest problem in dealing with heralds as well as with heraldry is the fact that both subjects are much too often seen as one. As a matter of fact, the relationship between heralds and heraldry is a tricky one and the link between both, as far as I see, has been largely overestimated.Heralds, on the one hand, are usually presented as the experts and authorities in all what concerns heraldry and... (continue reading at the Heraldica Nova blog)