Aspects of Renaissance and Baroque symbol theory, 1500-1700
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Aspects of Renaissance and Baroque symbol theory, 1500-1700
（AMS studies in the emblem, no. 14）
AMS Press, c1999
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-263) and index
Contents of Works
- Renaissance and Baroque symbol theory / John Manning
- Emblem theory and cultural specificity / Karel Porteman
- Terms for emblem in the Spanish tradition / Pedro F. Campa
- George Wither's use of emblem terminology / Peter M. Daly
- The device in Puttenham's Arte of English poesie / Mary V. Silcox
- "Emblem" as rhetorical figure : John Hoskins and Thomas Blount / Michael Bath
- Schottel's view of the relation of proverb to emblem motto / Ingrid Höpel
- Perceiving, seeing, and meaning : emblems and some approaches to reading early modern culture / Daniel S. Russell
- Image and moral teaching in emblematic animals / José Julio García Arranz
- Authorities for symbolism in the sixteenth century / Denis L. Drysdall
- Mnemonic emblems and the Humanist discourse of knowledge / William E. Engel
- Theories of music as a conception of divine harmony / Paul P. Raasveld
- The influence of the Counter-Reformation defence of images on the contemporary concept of emblem / J.D. Loach
- Thomas Blount's The art of making devises and the translation of authority / Alan R. Young
- The authority of hearsay : the evolution of Rosicrucian symbols from Andreae to Bulwer-Lytton / Stanley W. Beeler
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Description
"There is nothing under the sun which cannot provide material for the emblems." This collection of 14 essays aims to enliven the cultural cosmos of the Renaissance seen through the prism of the emblem, demonstrating what was readily apparent to the heirs of Alciato in 1687.
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