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“[A] rich collection of essays that explores the various developments that occurred in
early modern emblem culture and the multiple places where that culture developed.
. . . Indeed, this book’s breadth and depth on the subject of early modern emblems
has something to offer to both specialists and nonspecialists alike.”
—Catherine L. Howey, Sixteenth Century Journal
“[C]ontains items of considerable interest not merely to students of the emblem.”
—William Baker, Year’s Work in English Studies
This volume’s 21 essays and 80-page selected bibliography offer students and advanced researchers in a range of disciplines—from literature and art history to history, philosophy, political science, and religious studies—an ideal introduction and an authoritative reference guide to this increasingly popular field of study, which takes in a panoply of interests ranging from war to love, from the sciences to the occult, and from serious speculation to simple entertainment.
Companion to Emblem Studies addresses the many different expressions of the emblem tradition, beginning with the publication of the first emblem book in 1531 and continuing through its boom in the seventeenth century, when emblems appeared in speeches, sermons, printed texts, and a range of crafts and fine arts, marking the form as a significant expression of the cultural life of the Renaissance and Baroque.
Presenting contributions from leading emblem scholars in a dozen countries and edited by the renowned emblem scholar Peter M. Daly, the volume offers clearly written and carefully documented essays on the many manifestations of the emblem across Europe and into the U.S, the Neo-Latin and Jesuit emblem, the work of founding emblematist Andrea Alciato, emblem bibliography and theory, emblematic title pages and frontispieces, and emblems in material culture, flags, and tournaments, as well as in modern logos, advertisements, and propaganda.
Contents
Preface
1. Peter M. Daly, “Emblems: An Introduction”
2. Stephen Rawles, “Emblem Bibliography ”
3. Peter M. Daly,
“Emblem Theory: Modern and Early Modern”
4. Denis L. Drysdall, “Andrea Alciato, Pater et Princeps”
5. G. Richard Dimler, S.J., “The Jesuit Emblem”
6. Karl A.E. Enenkel, “The Neo-Latin Emblem: Humanist Learning, Classical
Antiquity, and the Virtual ‘Wunderkammer’”
7. Daniel Russell, “The Emblem in France and French-Speaking Countries”
8. Dietmar Peil, “The Emblem in the German-Speaking Regions”
9. Éva Knapp and Gábor Tüskés, “The Emblem in Hungary”
10. Liana De Girolami Cheney, “The Impresa in the Italian Renaissance”
11. Els Stronks, “The Emblem in the Low Countries”
12. Janusz Pelc, “The Emblem in Poland”
13. Pedro F. Campa, “Emblem Books in Russia”
14. Simon McKeown, “The Emblem in Scandinavia”
15. Antonio Bernat Vistarini and John T. Cull, “The Emblem in Spain: History and Characteristics”
16. Mary V. Silcox, “The Emblem in the United Kingdom and America”
17. Karl Josef Höltgen, “Emblematic Title Pages and Frontispieces: The Case of Early
Modern England”
18. Peter M. Daly, “The Emblem in Material Culture”
19. Alan R. Young, “The Emblem and Flags”
20. Alan R. Young, “The Emblem in Tournaments”
21. Peter M. Daly, “The Nachleben of the Emblem in Some Modern Logos, Advertisements, and Propaganda”
Selective Bibliography for Further Reading
List of Illustrations
Nota Vitae
Index
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Companion to emblem studies / edited by Peter M. Daly.
p. cm. — (AMS studies in the emblem ; no. 20)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13 978-0-404-63720-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Emblems—Themes, motives.
2. Emblem books—Bibliography.
I. I. Daly, Peter M. (Peter Maurice)
PN56.E57C66 2008
809'.915—dc22 2007025831
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