Acknowledged as one of the most important sets of early English tapestries, the Four Seasons set at Hatfield House raise many scholarly questions surrounding the design, production and uses of woven tapestry in 16th and early 17th-century England.

A fascinating exploration of the emblems which persuaded Scotland's most famous queen to execute the most important surviving textiles in the history of European embroidery.

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?

One stop introduction and anthology, including 122 poems in full; no additional materials/books are needed Features such as exercises, an extended glossary, guides for further reading and an expanded bibliography engage students and embed their learning New edition offers lots more contemporary and global examples making this the most up-to-date poetry textbook on the market

One stop introduction and anthology, including 122 poems in full; no additional materials/books are needed Features such as exercises, an extended glossary, guides for further reading and an expanded bibliography engage students and embed their learning New edition offers lots more contemporary and global examples making this the most up-to-date poetry textbook on the market