Emblematic Structures in Renaissance French Culture / / Daniel Russell.
The emblem and the device (or impresa as it was called in Italy) were the most direct and telling manifestations of a mentality that played a significant role in the discourse and art in Western Europe between the late Middle Ages and the mid-eighteenth century. In the history of Western symbolism,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | University of Toronto Romance Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations and Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Medieval and Early Renaissance Antecedents
- 1. Book Illustration in Medieval France and the Relation between Picture and Text in the Later Middle Ages
- 2. The Allegorical Antecedents
- 3. Proto-emblematics in the Fifteenth Century
- 4. Proto-emblematics in the Early Sixteenth Century
- Part II. Emblems in Renaissance France
- 5. Alciato and the Humanist Background of the Emblem
- 6. The Dissemination of the Emblem Idea in France
- 7. The Construction of the Early French Emblem
- Part III. Emblematics and the Structuring of a Culture
- 8. Emblematics and Court Culture
- 9. Emblematic Structures in Renaissance Literature
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Motifs
- Index of Names and Key Terms