Gerard Marí i Brull

Original title: Heráldica medieval: una creación cultural para una sociedad laica

Published in The educacion and secular culture in the Middle Ages

Keywords: Coats of arm, Heraldry, Medieval History.

This paper aims to show how Heraldry is a medieval cultural phenomenon of first importance created and developed outside the ecclesiastical world, through the analysis of three specific aspects: its origins, the language for the heraldic description and the ways of transmission of its knowledge.