Emblem in Renaissance and Baroque Europe : : Tradition and Variety / / edited by Alison Adams, Anthony J. Harper.

• Superior document: Symbola et emblemata, ; Volume 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Adams, Alison, 1946-; Harper, Anthony J. 1938-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : BRILL,, 1992.
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Symbola et emblemata : ; Volume 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) :; illustrations.

Represents a cross-section of the contributions delivered at the Glasgow International Emblem Conference 1990. They illustrate the variety and range of the research currently being conducted, in many different countries, into the emblem tradition in Renaissance and Baroque Europe.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- The Emblem in France -- Le classement thématique des emblèmes d'Alciat: recherche en paternité -- The Emblem in Italy -- The Emblem according to the Italian Impresa Theorists -- Giordano Bruno's Degli Eroici Furori and the Emblem Tradition -- The Emblem in the Low Countries and Germany -- Lucas d'Heere und Johannes Sambucus -- Vita Corneliana: Das emblematische Stammbuch von Theodor de Bry bis Peter Rollos -- "Embellished with Emblems": about the Incorporation of Emblems in other Genres in Dutch Literature -- Herzemblematik bei Daniel Cramer -- Das mehrständige Emblem: zu Geschichte und Erscheinungsform eines seltenen Emblemtyps -- The Emblem in Britain -- Geffrey Whitney's "Education" Emblems -- Montenay comes to Edinburgh: a French Emblem Book seen through Franco-Scottish eyes -- The Emblem and Alchemy -- La mise en scène de l'emblème dans le roman alchimique -- The Golden Medicine of Michael Maier -- Pan-European Traditions -- The Entry of Heresy into the Emblem Tradition: Circe and the Great Whore of Babylon -- The Hilltop Setting in Early Emblem Books -- The Bee-topos in the Jesuit Emblem Book: Themes and Contrast -- Word and Image in Emblematic Painting -- The Russian Emblem Book Ėmblemat duchovnyj -- Index of Primary Sources.