Emblems in Scotland : : motifs and meanings / / by Michael Bath.
Emblems in the visual arts use motifs which have meanings, and in Emblems in Scotland Michael Bath, leading authority on Renaissance emblem books, shows how such symbolic motifs address major historical issues of Anglo-Scottish relations, the Reformation of the Church and the Union of the Crowns. Em...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, Massachusetts : : Rodopi,, [2018] |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature
28. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (346 pages) :; illustrations. |
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| Summary: | Emblems in the visual arts use motifs which have meanings, and in Emblems in Scotland Michael Bath, leading authority on Renaissance emblem books, shows how such symbolic motifs address major historical issues of Anglo-Scottish relations, the Reformation of the Church and the Union of the Crowns. Emblems are enigmas, and successive chapters ask for instance: Why does a late-medieval rood-screen show a jester at the Crucifixion? Why did Elizabeth I send Mary Queen of Scots tapestries showing the power of women to build a feminist City of God? Why did a presbyterian minister of Stirling decorate his manse with hieroglyphics? And why in the twentieth-century did Ian Hamilton Finlay publish a collection of Heroic Emblems ? |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004364064 |
| ISSN: | 1571-0734 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Michael Bath. |