The English Emblem Tradition : : Volume 3: Emblematic Flag Devices of the English Civil Wars, 1642-1660 / / ed. by Alan R. Young.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• HerausgeberIn: Young, Alan R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Index Emblematicus ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (345 p.)

Interest in creating emblematic devices, fashionable during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, did not disappear in England with the demise of the tournament and the Stuart masque. Alan R. Young examines the hundreds of emblematic devices used by the warring parties on their military flags during and immediatley after, the English Civil Wars. To be fully understood, these emblematic devices must be 'read' as part of the massive propaganda war waged by the different factions. This collection throws light on the nature of the conflicts that led to the civil wars, based on the views set forth in the emblems and mottoes designed by the men who risked their lives in the cause of Parliament, king, covenant, or Irish Confederacy.Unlike earlier volumes in the Index Emblematicus series, which draw on printed emblem books as their sources, The English Emblem Tradition, Volume 3 brings together a corpus of material that was previously scattered widely among a number of surviving manuscripts. Wherever possible, carefully drawn illustrations of details of the flags have been reproduced from the original manuscripts. The flags are listed in alphabetical order by motto ( the mottoes are translated from the original Latin, French, Spanish, and other languages). A series of concordances, indexes, and lists makes the volume extremely accessible. Because of the unusual nature of the source material, a lengthy introductory essay is provided to explain the indexing of the text.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Glossaries -- Key Events -- Introduction: The English Civil War Flags -- THE EMBLEMATIC FLAG DEVICES OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS -- CONCORDANCES, INDEXES, AND LISTS -- Picture Index -- Index of Pictures (Proper Names) -- Index of Pictures (Inscriptions) -- Index of Latin Mottoes -- Index of Latin Mottoes (Proper Names) -- Index of English Mottoes -- Index of English Mottoes (Proper Names) -- Index of French Mottoes -- Index of French Mottoes (Proper Names) -- Index of Italian Mottoes -- Index of Spanish Mottoes -- Motto Index (Translations) -- Index of Proper Names (Motto Translations) -- Alphabetical List of Latin Mottoes (With Translations) -- Alphabetical List of English Mottoes -- Alphabetical List of French Mottoes (With Translations) -- Alphabetical List of Italian Mottoes (With Translations) -- Alphabetical List of Spanish Mottoes (With Translations) -- Bearers Index -- Lists of Flag Devices According to Political Allegiance