. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. Ilkj^rjki|<^ n [2J. CHAPTER I. KINGS. I. The Emperor. [No. i. Or an eagle with two heads displayed saMe armed gules. The eagles heads are, conformably to the earlier practice, neither diadematee, that is,encircled with annulets or nimbi, nor crowned. The annulets were the specialdistinction of the Imperial eagle, marking a higher dignity than that indicated bycrowns. The sword, sceptre, and orb came afterwards to be borne in the eaglesclaws. On the breast of the eagle
. Lacunar basilicae Sancti Macarii, aberdonensis: the heraldic ceiling of the cathedral church of St. Machar, old Aberdeen. Ilkj^rjki|<^ n [2J. CHAPTER I. KINGS. I. The Emperor. [No. i. Or an eagle with two heads displayed saMe armed gules. The eagles heads are, conformably to the earlier practice, neither diadematee, that is,encircled with annulets or nimbi, nor crowned. The annulets were the specialdistinction of the Imperial eagle, marking a higher dignity than that indicated bycrowns. The sword, sceptre, and orb came afterwards to be borne in the eaglesclaws. On the breast of the eagle were borne the personal arms of the Emperor,which for a long time were those of Austria. The German emperors assumed the eagle as their device in virtueof their claim to be the successors of the Roman emperors, whoseensign it was, both in Pagan and in Christian times. The meaningof the two heads, with which the Imperial eagle has been representedsince about the fourteenth century, has been variously interpreted,the most likely explanation being that the double head representedthe united empires of the East and of the West. In the earliest r
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