Emblem and Fable Books Printed in the Low Countries, 1542-1813
Author: Landwehr
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9004614168
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Emblems of the Low Countries
Author: Alison Adams
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780852617854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnglo-Dutch Relations in the Field of the Emblem
Author: Westerweel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-21
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9004617191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication is the first of its kind. It approaches Anglo-Dutch relations from the angle of the production of the highly popular emblem book and its influence on important cultural and political events, mainly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The Low Countries As a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs
Author: Arie Jan Gelderblom
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9004122885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSituated at the crossroads of important trade routes, the bustling seaports of the Low Countries not only traded cargoes of grain and timber, silk and spices, woollen cloth and splendidly executed altarpieces, but also manuscripts and books, news, information, ideas and gossip. Thus the Netherlands were touched by the evangelical Reformation movement at an early stage and played an increasingly important role as a crossroads for religious and philosophical ideas, serving as an intermediary between different parts of the world. The third volume of Intersections is devoted to this aspect of the 'intertraffic of the mind.' Thirteen authors from various disciplines address issues such as: How 'open' were the various religious groups to new points of view and how did they react to each other's opinion? How did they get familiar with new insights and different attitudes, and what was the role of trade and traffic in spreading them? How important was the part played by the various church and civil authorities, on the different levels of local, regional and national government? Contributors include: Paul Arblaster, Pieta van Beek, Ralph Dekoninck, Jeanine De Landtsheer, Agnes Guiderdoni-Brusle, Jason Harris, Christine Kooi, Fred van Lieburg, Guido Marnef, Mia M. Mochizuki, Henk van Nierop, Charles H. Parker, P.J. Schuffel, and J.J.V.M. de Vet.
Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th – 17th centuries)
Author: Renaud Adam
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-10-24
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 900451015X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve contributors offer new perspectives on the efficacy of the handpress book industry to support the Catholic strategy of the Spanish Low Countries.
Russia and the Low Countries
Author: Roger Tavernier
Publisher: Barkhuis
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9077089047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This bibliography contains everything that has been published in the West--except from Russia--about the relations between the Low Countries (Belgium and the Netherlands) and Russia--in every Western language"--P. [4] of cover.
The Emblem in Early Modern Europe
Author: Peter M. Daly
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1351890832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Literature in the Light of the Emblem
Author: Peter Maurice Daly
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780802078919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe literature of the 16th and 17th centuries was informed by the symbolic thought embodied in the mixed art form of emblems. This study explores the relationship between the emblem and the literature of England and Germany during the period.
Early Modern Women in the Low Countries
Author: Susan Broomhall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-13
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1317146808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining historical, historiographical, museological, and touristic analysis, this study investigates how late medieval and early modern women of the Low Countries expressed themselves through texts, art, architecture and material objects, how they were represented by contemporaries, and how they have been interpreted in modern academic and popular contexts. Broomhall and Spinks analyse late medieval and early modern women's opportunities to narrate their experiences and ideas, as well as the processes that have shaped their representation in the heritage and cultural tourism of the Netherlands and Belgium today. The authors study female-authored objects such as familial and political letters, dolls' houses, account books; visual sources, funeral monuments, and buildings commissioned by female patrons; and further artworks as well as heritage sites, streetscapes, souvenirs and clothing with gendered historical resonances. Employing an innovative range of materials from written sources to artworks, material objects, heritage sites and urban precincts, the authors argue that interpretations of late medieval and early modern women's experiences by historians and art scholars interact with presentations by cultural and heritage tourism providers in significant ways that deserve closer interrogation by feminist researchers.
Joannes Sambucus and the Learned Image
Author: Arnoud Visser
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005-02-01
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9047405390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe emblem is one of the most remarkable literary inventions of Renaissance humanism. The symbolic imagery presented in these Neo-Latin emblem books constituted an important influence on many areas in early modern literature and art. This volume provides the first comprehensive study of Sambucus’ influential Emblemata (first published by Christopher Plantin, Antwerp, 1564). It reconstructs the cultural-historical contexts in which it was produced, thus reconsidering the social and commercial functions of the humanist emblem. Accompanied by a detailed analysis of individual emblems, it takes into account the emblems’ classical intertextuality and the relationship between word and image. This study shows how the emblematic practice can differ from contemporary symbol and emblem theories, which have often coloured modern interpretations of the genre.
