Studies in the Jesuit Emblem


~ by G. Richard Dimler, S. J. ~

LC 2005048194 — Clothbound $182.00

ISBN-10: 0-404-63718-3 / ISBN-13: 978-0-404-63718-7
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AMS Studies in the Emblem, No. 18


The Jesuits produced more books on the topic of emblem studies than did any other identifiable group of writers, comprising a vast spectrum of subject matter with a wide diversity of structure and creating an enormous impact on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century culture. In his new book Studies in the Jesuit Emblem, G. Richard Dimler has gathered together selections from his past studies in Jesuit emblems, spanning some 25 years. His revised articles incorporate a wide array of topics including, among others, the state of our knowledge of the Jesuit emblem book, Jesuit emblem theory, the genesis and the rise of the Jesuit Emblem, Jesuit reaction to Andrea Alciato, the Imago Primi Saeculi, Edmund Arwaker’s translation of the Pia Desideria, as well as some specific Jesuit themes such as the bee-topos and the egg. Also included in the book are hitherto unpublished essays on Herman Hugo, the evolution of an Ignatian emblem book, and a taxonomical inquiry into the eighteenth-century Jesuit emblem.


C O N T E N T S

Preface
Introduction
Jesuit Emblem Books: An Overview of Research Past and Present
I. Jesuit Theory
      1. Humanism and the Rise of the Jesuit Emblem
      2. Imitatio, Innovatio and Jesuit Emblem Theory
      3. Friedrich Spee, Hieronymus Nadal, and the Early Jesuit Emblem Tradition
      4. Jakob Masen’s Imago Figurata: From Theory to Practice
      5. The Emblematum Liber of Andrea Alciato and Jakob Masen’s Theory of the Imago Figurata
      6. Humanism and the Rise of the Jesuit Emblem
II. Jesuit Practice
      7. Emblems and Rhetoric: Syllogistic Examples from Andrés Mendo’s Principe Perfecto (1662)
      8. Herman Hugo’s Pia Desideria
      9. Edmund Arwaker’s Translation of the Pia Desideria: The Reception of Herman Hugo’s Emblem Book in Seventeenth-Century England
      10. The Egg as Emblem: Genesis and Structure of a Jesuit Emblem Book
      11. Ignaz Querck’s Ignatian Emblem Book
      12. Emblematic Structures in Celebrations of Francis Borgia’s Canonization
      13. Octiduum S. Francisco Borgiae (1671): The Munich Jesuits Celebrate the Canonization of Francis Borgia
      14. Johann Kreihing’s Emblemata Ethico-Politica (Antwerp 1661)
      15. The Adaptation of Ignatius’s Favorite Prayer the Anima Christi into Emblem Form by Jozef Andrzej Zaluski (with Peter M. Daly)
III. General Essays
      16. The Bee-Topos in the Jesuit Emblem Book: Themes and Contrast
      17. The Jesuit Emblem in the Eighteenth-Century: A Taxonomical Inquiry
Conclusion
Bibliography and Works Cited
Index



Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dimler, G. Richard, 1931–
Studies in the Jesuit emblem / by G. Richard Dimler.
     p. cm. — (AMS studies in the emblem ; no. 18)
     Includes bibliographical references and index.
     ISBN-10 0-404-63718-3
     ISBN-13 978-0-404-63718-7 (alk. paper)
     1. Emblems—History and criticism.
     2. Emblem books—History and criticism.
     3. Jesuits. 4. Jesuit art.
     I. Dimler, G. Richard, 1931–
     II. Series
BV4515.3 b .S78 2007
808.88'2—dc22                                                       2005048194

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