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The Emblem in Early Modern Europe - Contributions to the Theory of the Emblem (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Emblem in Early Modern Europe - Contributions to the Theory of the Emblem (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used
extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to
decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and
numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At its
most basic level simply a combination of symbolic visual image and
texts, an emblem is a hybrid composed of words and picture.
However, as this book demonstrates, understanding the precise and
often multiple meaning, intention and message emblems conveyed can
prove a remarkably slippery process. In this book, Peter Daly draws
upon many years' research to reflect upon the recent upsurge in
scholarly interest in, and rediscovery of, emblems following years
of relative neglect. Beginning by considering some of the seldom
asked, but important, questions that the study of emblems raises,
including the importance of the emblem, the truth value of emblems,
and the transmission of knowledge through emblems, the book then
moves on to investigate more closely-focussed aspects such as the
role of mnemonics, mottoes and visual rhetoric. The volume
concludes with a review of some perhaps inadequately considered
issues such as the role of Jesuits (who had a role in the
publication of about a quarter of all known emblem books), and
questions such as how these hybrid constructs were actually read
and interpreted. Drawing upon a database containing records of
6,514 books of emblems and imprese, this study suggests new ways
for scholars to approach important questions that have not yet been
satisfactorily broached in the standard works on emblems.
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