Life work of the renowned Czech heraldist Jiří Louda, author of the Greater Coat of Arms of the Czech Republic and the coats of arms for hundreds of Czech cities and towns. The book, via more than a thousand distinctive drawings of its coats of arms, maps the nearly seven-hundred-year history of the Knights of the Garter – one of the most important societies in Europe, at whose head sits Queen Elizabeth II, and whose members include for example Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, Sir Winston Churchill, Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Sir Edmund Hillary, Prince Philip, and Prince William. The book is published by Palacký University Press in conjunction with the Olomouc Regional Museum. More information is available at louda.upol.cz.
