D'Arcy Boulton (heraldist)
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D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton (born 1946) is a Canadian medieval historian, and
heraldic Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree. Armory, the best-known branc ...
author and artist. He is descendant of Boulton family of Toronto.


Education and career

Having obtained a
Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...
degree from the
University of Trinity College Trinity College (occasionally referred to as the University of Trinity College) is a University of Toronto#Colleges, federated college of the University of Toronto located at the University of Toronto#St. George campus, St. George campus in Down ...
(1969) and a
Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Those admitted to the degree have ...
degree from the
University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...
, Boulton completed a D.Phil. from the
University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...
, studying at St. John's College, in 1976 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. He taught at
Davidson College Davidson College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina, United States. It was established in 1837 by the Concord Presbytery and named after American Revolutiona ...
and
Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
before becoming a faculty member at the
University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...
in
Notre Dame, Indiana Notre Dame is a census-designated place and unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend in St. Joseph County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It includes the campuses of three colleges: the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary's Co ...
where he retired as emeritus professor of history and medieval studies in 2015. Boulton is a member of the
Académie Internationale d'Héraldique An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the g ...
. In 1993, he was elected as a Fellow of the
Royal Heraldry Society of Canada The Royal Heraldry Society of Canada (RHSC; ) is a Canadian organization that promotes interest in heraldry in Canada. It was founded in 1966 and granted royal patronage in 2002. History The society was established in October 1966, as the Hera ...
, and he served as the registrar (1998–2022) and vice-dean (2004–22) of the society's College of Fellows. Since 2008, he has edited ''Alta Studia Heraldica: The Scholarly Journal of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada''.http://ash.heraldry.ca/
/ref> Boulton has produced armorial achievements for individual divisions of both Harvard and Notre Dame.


Publications

*''The Knights in the Crown: The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Late Medieval Europe, 1326–1520'' (Boydell and Brewer, 1987); second edition, revised and expanded (2000), . *Co-editor, ''The Ideology of Burgundy: Fashioning a 'National' Identity in the Literary, Political and Historical Vernacular'' (Brill, 2006), . *"The Middle French Statutes of the Monarchical Order of the Ship (Naples, 1381): A Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes", ''Mediaeval Studies'' 47 (1985), pp. 168–271. *"Belts, Brooches, Collars, and Crosses: The Development of the Insignia of the Monarchical Orders of Knighthood, 1325-1693", in ''Heraldry in Canada'', 21.5 (December 1987), pp. 9–39. *"Insignia of Power: The Use of Heraldic and Para-Heraldic Devices by Italian Princes, c. 1350-1500", in ''Art and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy, 1250-1500'', ed. Charles M. Rosenberg, (Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990), pp. 103–127. *"''Contesse'', ''Duchesse'', ''Marchise'', ''Viscontesse'': The Appearance of Feminine Forms of Titles of Dignity in France, 850-1200", in ''Romance Languages Annual'', 5 (1993), pp. 5–13. *"Dynasties, Domains, and Dominions: The Use and Non-use of Territorial Arms by French Princes, c. 1200-c.1500", in ''Académie Internationale d’Héraldique, VIII Colloquium, Canterbury, 29 August-4 September 1993, Proceedings'', Cecil R. Humphery-Smith, ed., Canterbury, 1995, pp. 39–74. *"Classic Knighthood as Nobiliary Dignity: The Knighting of Counts and Kings' Sons in England 1066-1272", in ''Medieval Knighthood V: Papers from the fifth Strawberry Hill Conference 1994'', ed. S. Church, (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press 1995), pp. 40–100. *"''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'': A Poem for Henry of Grosmont?" (with W. G. Cooke), ''Medium Aevum'' 68 (1999), pp. 32–44. *"The Monarchical (and Curial) Orders of Knighthood before the Reformation: A Reassessment in the Light of Recent Research", in ''Les Ordres de Chevalerie'', ed. André Damien, Membre de l’Institut (Paris: Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1999), pp. 85–136. *"The Treatise on Armory in Christine de Pizan's ''Livre des Fais d’Armes et de Chevalerie'' and its place in the Tradition of Heraldic Didacticism", in ''Contexts and Continuities: Proceedings of the IVth International Colloquium on Christine de Pizan (Glasgow, 21–27 July 2000), published in honour of Lilane Dulac'', ed. Angus J. Kennedy et al. (Glasgow, Univ. of Glasgow Press, 2002), Vol. I, pp. 87–98. *"A Fair Field Full of Folk (But Only Beyond the Sea): The Study of the Nobilities of Latin Europe", in ''Historically Speaking'' 4.2 (November 2002), pp. 5–7. *"Knighthood and Nobility in the Lay Orders and Nobiliary Societies of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries", in As ''Ordens militares e de Cavalaria na Construção do Moundo Ocidental – Actas do IV Encontro sobre Ordens Militares'', (Lisbon, Portugal: Edições Colibri/ Câmara Municipal de Palmela, Portugal, 2005), pp. 561–583. *"Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1547", in ''Princes and Princely Culture 1450-1650'', Vol. II, ed. Martin Gosman et al., Instituut voor Cultuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Groningen ( Leiden: Brill, 2005), II, pp. 129–190. *"Headgear of Nobiliary Rank in Germany, Italy, France, and England: The First Phases in the History of the National Systems", in ''Streekwapens en Regional Heraldiek – L’Héraldique Régionale – Regional Heraldry – Regionalheraldik: Congreverslag van het XIIe internationaal Heraldisch Colloquium … Report XII. International Colloquium on Heraldry, Groningen 3-7 september 2001'', ed. Hans de Boo, et al. (Bedum, NL, 2006), pp. 60–79. *"The Curial Orders of Knighthood of the Confraternal Type: Their Changing Forms, Functions, and Values in the Eyes of their Contemporaries, 1325-2006", in ''World Orders of Knighthood and Merit'', ed. Guy Stair Sainty and Rafal Heydel-Mankoo (Buckingham, UK, and Wilmington, DE: Burke's Peerage & Gentry, Ltd., 2006), pp. 205–239 *"The Origins of a ''Damnosa Haereditas'': The Degeneration of Heraldic Emblematics in the future and current United States and the Origins of the Sigilloid Display-emblem, 1608-1798", in ''Genealogica &Heraldica: Proceedings of the XXVI International Congress for Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences'', ed. André Vandewalle et al. (Brussels: Vlaamse Overheid, 2006), pp. 121–147. *"Le symbolisme attribué aux couleurs héraldiques dans les traités de blason des XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles". ''Le Langage figuré: Actes du XIIe Colloque international, Université McGill, Montréal, 4-5-6 octobre 2004, pub. par Giuseppe di Stefano et Rose M. Bidler'' (Montreal, 2007), pp. 63–88. *"Arms and Multiple Identities: Changing Patterns in the Representation of Two or More of the identities of a Single Armiger in Different Regions, c. 1140-c. 1520", in ''Genealogica & Heraldica: Identität in Genealogie und Heraldik. XXIXth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, Stuttgart 2010'' (Stuttgart, 2012), pp. 116–139. *"The Heraldic Emblematics of the Provinces of British North America and their Successors before and after the Partition of 1776/83: A Study in Contrasts", in ''Genealogica & Heraldica: Grenzen in Genealogie en Heraldik – Frontiers in Genealogy and Heraldry – Frontières dans la généalogie de l’héraldique'' – ''Proceedings of the XXXth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, held at Maastricht 24''–''28 September 2012'', ed. Jan T. Anema et al. ( 's-Gravenhage : Stichting De Nederlandse Leeuw, 2014), pp. 39–68 *"The Display of Arms in their Primary Martial Contexts: Shields, Horse-Trappers, Martial Coats, Crests, Ailettes, Part IIB. The Pre-Classic Period in England, c. 1217 – c. 1327: Flags", in ''The Coat of Arms,'' ser. 4, vol. 2, no. 236, (2019), pp. 27–59.


Arms


See also

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Canadian Heraldic Authority The Canadian Heraldic Authority (CHA; ) is part of the Canadian honours system under the Monarchy of Canada, Canadian monarch, whose authority is exercised by the Governor General of Canada. The authority is responsible for the creation and gran ...
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Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly o ...


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boulton, Darcy Living people 1946 births Trinity College (Canada) alumni University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Davidson College faculty Harvard University faculty University of Notre Dame faculty Heraldic artists Canadian heraldry Fellows of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada