10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CANTING ARMS»
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1
James Joyce and Heraldry
canting arms. Also "allusive" arms; arms that refer by visual pun (rebus) to the
name of the armiger. Examples: the spear in Shakespeare's arms; the olive
branch in those of Oliver St. John Gogarty (a rare instance of a pun on a given
name; ...
2
English Surnames. Essays on family nomenclature, historical, ...
225 A CHAPTER OF CANTING ARMS, dzc. &c. WHEN Rebuses are borne by
families as coats of arms, they are called, in the language of heraldry, ARMA
CANTANTIA, ARMEs PARLANTES, or CANTING ARMS. They seem to be in use
in ...
3
The T. E. Lawrence Puzzle
39 Canting arms—that is, arms that make a punning reference to a name, usually
the name of their bearer—are the object of Cervantes' scorn here. (The motto,
really an adjunct to the coat of arms itself, may also cant.) Lawrence was familiar
...
Stephen E. Tabachnick, 2012
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An Essay on the Ancient and Modern Use of Armories: Shewing ...
It is answered, That Canting Arms or Parlantes are not the oldest, and Arms were
long in use before Sirnames, to distinguish Fa-, milies and their Descendants, for
which they were called the ancient silent Names, and many Sirnames were ...
5
A Plea for the Antiquity of Heraldry: With an Attempt to ...
Canting arms have a meaning, as in the wolf's head of Hugh Lupus ; and the pel-
ic&m of the Pel-hsms, ; 21 the crozier in 2i Canting arms are ranked by Dalla-
kind were in most cases, and especially way, Porny, and other writers, as of the
by ...
William Smith Ellis, 1853
6
Early Blazon: Heraldic Terminology in the Twelfth and ...
Classic study of the rise and flowering of heraldry 12-13c, with Arthurian references.
7
The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity ...
Arms themselves could talk (armes parlantes, canting arms): Roger de
Trumpington bore trumpets, the Wingfield family bore wings, and the memorial
brass of Robert de Setvans is designed to show seven winnowing baskets (sept
vans) ...
Canting arms are arms in which the charge or charges illustrate the holder's
name or, by a stretch of the imagination, his way of life or even his address. As
stated on p. 8 there are a tremendous number of canting arms, certainly far more
than ...
Carl Alexander Von Volborth, 1974
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Universal Technological Dictionary: Or, Familiar ...
tli is animal, in coats of arms, denotes expedition in business ; sometimes it is
only used as Canting Arms, as he beareth, *• Argent, a camel passant, by the
name of Camel." This coat stands in the church of Bury-Poraeroy, in the county of
...
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Names and Naming in Joyce
(he crows with a black capon's laugh)" (15.3829). 2. Such coats of arms are
known as "canting" arms, and a number of literary figures have emblematized
their names in such a way. The name Kafka, for example, when spelled as Kavka
with ...
