| | Heraldic Symbolism in Tristram and Isoud |
 | | Another notable exception to the rule is found in the Livre du Cuer d'Amours, a fantasy on love written by Rene of Anjou, the chivalrous and lettered father-in-law of Henry VI of England, and a peer of France. |
| | This paper has described the terminology of heraldry, given a brief history of why and how its symbolic code came to be, and examined the arms of major and minor characters in several versions of the legend of Tristram and Isoud in the light of that symbolic code. |
| | Because a clear knowledge of heraldry is not as common now as it was when these books were written and these works of art were created, something is lost to us that would have been obvious to our ancestors when we look at them. |
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