Before the name of your tailor, the make and model of your car, or the size of your superyacht mattered, and before logo-laden handbags or even old school ties, the status symbol for the seriously ...

One would have thought that in the post-Vatican II era, the papacy — which had dispensed with coronations, tiaras, silken gloves, the sedia gestatoria and ostrich feather fans, — would have shelved ...

Many cultural tourists would have noticed the Grand Masters’ Latin inscriptions and coat of arms on buildings, coins, medals, manuscripts and other printed material. For instance, usually Grandmasters ...

Thought to have been adopted sometime in the 12 th century, the historic system of heraldry – coats of arms and other graphic armorial bearings – was designed so that individuals could identify ...

It used to be that a coat of arms was strictly for landed gentry, used mainly to help soldiers follow each other into battle under a particular Lord of the manor. Yet in recent years, having one's own ...