Help the Donkey?

If I saw the donkey was in danger I would help it. I would put all the hate for the person aside because it wasn't the person you are helping its the poor donkey who cant handle all the weight.
I think that's why there is a lot of bad things in this world caused by hate, because if one person hates someone whey will not help out anyone else who related to them in some way.



Michael D.

Canterbury Tales

Does anyone have an audio version of the first 18 lines? If so post the link.

-Sebastian Jaskowski

standard field divisons and corresponding ordinary continuation of 10/28/09 notes

quaterly - christian served on crusades

pile inverted- represents wood used in bridge-building signifies construction building

Per saltire - St. Andrews cross - revolution/resolve - Scottland

Per pall inverted

Per pale - military strength fortitude

per cheveron inverted

per bend sinister

A pale - military strenght/fortitude

Per fess - military- A FESS- belt signifies honor

A cross - Christian- crusades

A cheveron - represents roof of house - signifies protection- faithful service

A bend - knights scarf signifies defense





These are most of the standard field divisions and corresponding ordinary. There are some of the variations of each shield missing but at least on of each type of shield is represented. Additionally, I was not able to find a picture of the chief the shield-meaning dominion -authority,wisdom,achievement in battle. Also I was not able to find pictures of fess wise, bend wise or pale wise. But they are the same types of shields - fess (horizontal)- bend(diagonal) - and pale (vertical) simply wise shield just have charges in the directions of the type.

I hope this helps

Kiera

Heraldry Notes 10/28/09

A PROPER CHARGE

• proper= colored with the most common colors found in nature for that object.
• A zebra proper-black and white stripes
• tree proper - brown trunk and green leaves
• sword proper-argent blade and Or hilt
• rose proper-rose gules barbed vert and seeded Or
• The term proper should only be used to indicate colorings that cannot be described in the heraldic language
• raven proper is just a raven sable - all ravens are uniformly black
• proper as the natrual colors of a charge must be unambigous
• - a robin proper
• - brown bear proper
• - tree proper
• If the charge can come in different colors do not call it proper! consider a horse, how many different colors can a horse be?
• Proper should also only be used if a competent artist will be able to draw the animal correctly without extensive research
• The rule "metal color and color on metal" is not always used when the charge is proper

DIVIDING THE SHIELD

• Most early shilds were undivided
• But as time went on and COA became more complex, the shield often became segmented because:
• -marriage
• -disputes between families
• -recepit of new honors (from a monarch)
• -new accomplishments (victory in battle)

SHIELD DIVISIONS EXAMPLE:

• a shield divided diagonally upper right to lower left -PERBEND
• blue on top-AZURE
• black on bottom-SABLE
• silver lion w. tounge out standing on hind legs - PER BEND AZURE AND SABLE A LION LANGUE RAMPANT ARGENT

THE NEW JERSEY COAT OF ARMS

• the blazon:
• three proper ploughs(proper) in an escutcheon(type of shield), azure; supporters liberty and ceres
• The godess liberty-carry in her dexter hand a pole proper surmounted by a cap gules w. band azure at the bottom displaying on the band 6 stars, argent; tresse falling on sshoulders proper; head bearing overall a chaplet of laurel leaves vert; overdress tenne; underskirt argent feet sandled standing on scroll.
• ceres save as liberty, same overdress, gule, holding in left hand a cornucopia bearing apples, plums and grapes, surrounded by leaves all proper; head bearing over all a chaplet wheat by soverign's helmet, 6 bars, OR
• Wreath and mantling: argent and azure
• Crest: a horses head proper
• underneath the shield supporting the godesses a scroll azure, border with tenne in 3 waves or fold on the upper folds the words liberty and prosperity on the under fold in arabic numerals the figure 1776

NJ MILITARY CREST

• the state military crest used in the COA of units of the national guarded granted by what is now the army institute of heraldry
• blazoned "a lions head erased or collare four fuils gules."

ASSIGNMENTS

• take a look at the COA of college of choice with basice research identify their heraldic elements. what do the COAS tell you about your schools that you didnt know before
• keep and on going log of heraldic elements and charges crests, full COAs that you come across and share them
• 18 lines due on monday!

NOTES OCTOBER 28, 2009

Kiera

Monday, Oct. 26th 09 Notes

Shape of the Shield Con't.

Women can use shields today

Shield Colors

-In heraldry colors are called "tinctures"

- 9 main tinctures

-2 metals (light)

-7 colours (dark)

-Names of the tinctures mainly come from the French

-1st rule of tincture, metal never on metal, nor color on color

-to improve contrast because it was difficult t do

Tinctures

Color Meaning

-Or Gold Metal Generosity

-Argent (silver-white) Metal Peace, Sincerity

-Purpure (purple) Regal, Justice

-Gules (red) Warrior, Martyr

-Azure (blue) Strength, Loyalty

-Vert (green) Hope, Loyalty in Love

-Sable (black) Constancy, Grief

-Tenne or Tawny (orange) Worthwhile, Ambition

-Sanguine or Murray (maroon) Victorious, Patient in battle

Assembling the C.O.A.

Field= the background color of the shield

Charge= "things you place on the shield"

-can be animals, objects or geometric constructs

- The simplest type of shield has only 1 main charge

Charges

Common Charges

-Lions

-Leopards

-Eagle

-Boars

-Gryphons

-Fish/Dolphin

-Marlets

Rarely Used

-Unicorn

-Dragon

Charges Con't

-From the shields prospective the default position for animal is "dexter"

-Looking to the left is "sinister"

-Animal looking directly at the viewer is "gardant"

flying-volant

walking- passant

sitting-sejant

swimming- (i can't read my handwriting...)

leaping- salient

lying down- couchant

standing on hild legs- rampant

-Animal shown langue (tongue sticking out) denotes fierceness

-Head of an animal cut off at the neck is couped if cut is straight

-Erased if it looks if the animals head has been ripped off

Other Charges

-Different kinds of animals

-Heads of animals

-Parts of body parts

-Geometric Shapes

-Flowers and Leaves

-Crowns and Anchors

-Stars and Heart

-"the label" (first born son)

Blazonry, Part 1

-a shield with a Green field

- a gold lion with its tongue out

-in profile standing on his hind legs

Thus, in heraldry terms:

Vert, a lion langue rampant Or

(start with background color, then type of charge, discription of charge, color of charge)

-Molly M (thanks for reminding me Kiera)

Notes 10/22 and 10/23

Sorry it took me so long to get them up Mol.

Kiera

The medieval art of heraldry‏

The medieval art of heraldry‏
How to make your own coat of arms

COAT OF ARMS(COA)

• one man in armor looks at another during TMA knights used a coat of arms to identify each other during battle. You wanted to know who was coming toward you so you could know which side they were on.
• -n society where few ppl. could read and write COA became an instant method for identification
• COA later took on further significance and meanings -most notable they became a way of showing membership in the aristocracy
• Arms remained popular for usually identifying a person in other ways
• Impressed in sealing wax on official documentsEngraved on family tomb
• The descent of arm was and remains strictly regulated by influencePopular associations of COA with person all bested of a surname is a misconception

CURRENT USUAGE

• COA are used widely primarily as a way to give the members of a group or organization feeling of aristocracy-upperclassness the sense of elite membership in something special
• COA-(both offical and invented) are commonly associated with countries, cities, states, businesses, military units, colleges ect.

EXAMPLES:

• Moorestown police, rutgers university, baltimore ravens, Cadillac, uss new York-marine support cruiser - all non family

HERALDRY

• Heraldry is the science and art if describing COA(armorial bearings)

THE HERALD

• Heralds- become the people skilled in the description of coa
• Blazon- to describe a shield in words using heraldic terms
• Emblazon- to draw /paint a shield from a blazon
• To herald to announce -announce the identiy - translate images to words

EXAMPLES: The coat of arms of saskatchewan canada

• 7 basic componets of COA:
• shield- most early element of coa
• helm-crest/wreath
• mantling
• supporters
• motto /scroll
• compartment

THE COMPARTMENT

• design placed beneath the shield, usually rocks, grassy mount- some sort of landscape upon which the supporters are depicted as standing
• landscape, seascape, piece of geography, notable landmark intended to represent the land held by the beared
• ex: western red Lillies - canada

THE MOTTO

• phrase or collection on words intended to describe the bearers motivation or intention
• typically depicted on a scroll under the arms or else above it as in scots heraldry
• traditionaly in latin or other romance languages (french or Italian) as well as in English or German
• ex: canada- multise gentibus vire - from many peoples strength -
• 3 waves

SUPPORTERS

• figures-Human or animal standing on either side of the shield
• often have local/historical significance
• ex: the royal lion of England and the indengonous white tail deer

THE HELM

• heraldric elements on the shield were often also used for the deocration of knightly elements
• used the shield most often-it then became common to include a helment as part of the coa above the shield (or some other form of headgear)
• in some system the rank if the bearer was reflected in the type of helmet
• ex: type of metal and the number of bars in the visor notably used in France
• the shield is gold and faces left a symbol of saskatchewan -sovereign status in the canadian confederation
• the practice of including a helm continued long after the actual use of such helmets ended- other types of headgear now used -i.e the crown
• Due to their traditionl non participation in combat clergy and woman traditionally displayed neither helm nor crest
• ex: former Bristish prime minister Margrat Thatcher

THE MANTALNG

• drapery tied to the helmet above the shield, forming a back drop for the shield
• orginally a depiction of the protective cloth
• covering worn by crusading knights from their helemets to stave off the element
• Usually is drawn or painted in stylized "tatter" as is cut to shreds from the sword- blows of battle and colored in the two primary colors of the overall COA

THE CREST/WREATH

• The term crest is often mistakenly used to refer to the entire COA - FAIL!
• The crest rest upon the hekm, usually on a wreath of twisted cloths in the two principal colors of the COA
• often animal (but not always)
• Crest can be used on their own (particularly when there is insufficent space to display the entire COA)
• ex: The beaver (Canada's national animal) holding a western red lily surmounted by the royal crown.

THE SHIELD

• The main part of the COA
• Derived from the orginal use of the shield by knights in combat
• oldest element- most difficult to understand

THE SHAPE OF THE SHIELD

1. 13th century
2. 14 th and 15 th
3. 12th iberian penisula
4. 16th French today
5. English -variant of 4
6. Venitian shield
7. di cavallo - horse head - renissance
8. en cartouche - renissance
9. The targe jousting shield - Germanic countries
10. The targe jousting shield - Germanic countries
11. Common clergy shield
12. Lozenge- Woman Shield

NOTES FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 2009

Kiera

Unit 2 Norman Conquest

Unit 2 Norman Conquest

Plauge - middle class - skilled workers - merchant, clergical - cause the fall of french as the prestige language
-English vs. French - nobility prestige language didn't stay that way because then we would speak it today.
-Black plaguge hit largest in cities - large quantites of trash rats and population-Aristocracy survives but because many pesants die then the remaining pesants create the middle class.-Creates a class who has value who the aristocrats have to communicate eveyday

Geoffrey Chaucer (1200-1300)
-Moves english to be come prestigue language
-Born of th middle class
- could be come wealthy
-Became a servant in a royal household and worked his way up - became a member of the civil service
-Spent a lot of time in court - wrote poetry in EnglishLegit form of public expression Proves english is a language suitable for the arts and doing so legitimatized the language
-Canterbury tales his greatest works (14 orginal copies) copies not made unless someone wanted them

-Canterbury tales - canterburytales.org
-Frame narrative -pilgrams from London to Canterbury to visit the cathedral/shrine of thomas abeckett
-Narrative the pilgrams told the tales of pilgrams who made the journey. He wanted the 22 pilgrams who traveled to tell 2 on the way there and 2 on the way back


Assignments
-read the general prolouge
-memorization the 1st 18 lines of the Canterbury tales -the general prolouge

Bonus -options
1. Memorize in middle English as well as modern English and write
2. Memorize the modern English and recite it.
3. Memorize both modern and middle English and recite in middle English
* listen to online recordings

These are the notes from Thursday October 22, 2009


Kiera

Mythic Heroic Archetype

Does anyone know how Beowulf changes/ what new wisdom or knowledege he learns from the his fight with dragon?

We discussed the first two fights - Grendel and Grendel's mom but we didn't talk about the dragon.


Kiera

Sigemund and Hildeburh

I am still a bit confused about the story of Sigemund. I get that the author/narrator is trying to make a comparision between Sigemund and Beowulf, but I am still unsure of what that comparission is exactly. Does anyone know?

Also if someone could please explain to me the story of Hildeburh and the point of that story that would be great cause I am really confused about that also. And also what tribe is her brother the leader of I couldn't find the answer to that its number 18 b under celebration at herot in the packet.

I was going to ask Mr. Laz about this today but unfortunately we ran out of time. If anyone can help me with this at all I would really appreciate it.


Kiera

Packet Question

Does anyone know where in the story quote #21 is and who is saying it?

Marc

beowulf questions

hi
I was just a little confused with one of the questions in the packet. The Beowuf attacks the Dragon section at the end. #3 says what is his intention and #4 is what does he tell his warriors is his strategy? So would the Srategy be only fighting the dragon if he comes out of his barrow and onto the open ground to face Beowulf? And would his intention be vowing to fight? Cause i dont know if that makes sence.
And also in that section #5 What does he tell the warriors their role in the battle, and how does he justify it? Is their role just to stay behind? but then who are the compainions? Are they the same people, the 11, that go to investigate the sence earlier?
Sophie