Emblems and the Natural World - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Paul J. Smith, Karl A. E. EnenkelSeries:IntersectionsTheme:Chronological Period/Medieval (500-1453) StudiesPublish date:9/21/2017Pages:700
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004347069ISBN-10:9004347062UPC:9789004347069Book Category:History, Art, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Europe, History, MedievalBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:9.60 x 6.50 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.271Product ID:SCJN36DHCH
Since its invention by Andrea Alciato, the emblem is inextricably connected to the natural world. Alciato and his followers drew massively their inspiration from it. For their information about nature, the emblem authors were greatly indebted to ancient natural history, the medieval bestiaries, and the 15th- and 16th-century proto-emblematics, especially the imprese. The natural world became the main topic of, for instance, Camerarius's botanical and zoological emblem books, and also of the 'applied' emblematics in drawings and decorative arts. Animal emblems are frequently quoted by naturalists (Gesner, Aldrovandi). This interdisciplinary volume aims to address these multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying ideologies - scientific, artistic, literary, political and/or religious.
Contributors: Alison Saunders, Anne Rolet, Marisa Bass, Bernhard Schirg, Maren Biederbick, Sabine Kalff, Christian Peters, Frederik Knegtel, Agnes Kusler, Aline Smeesters, Astrid Zenker, Tobias Bulang, Sonja Schreiner, Paul Smith, and Karl Enenkel.
Contributors: Alison Saunders, Anne Rolet, Marisa Bass, Bernhard Schirg, Maren Biederbick, Sabine Kalff, Christian Peters, Frederik Knegtel, Agnes Kusler, Aline Smeesters, Astrid Zenker, Tobias Bulang, Sonja Schreiner, Paul Smith, and Karl Enenkel.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004347069ISBN-10:9004347062UPC:9789004347069Book Category:History, Art, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Europe, History, MedievalBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:9.60 x 6.50 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.271Product ID:SCJN36DHCH
Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300-1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.
Paul J. Smith is Professor of French literature at Leiden University. He has widely published on 16th, 17th, and 20th century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric, intermediality, and animal symbolism and early modern zoology, and its presence in art and literature.
Paul J. Smith is Professor of French literature at Leiden University. He has widely published on 16th, 17th, and 20th century French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, French and Dutch fable and emblem books, literary rhetoric, intermediality, and animal symbolism and early modern zoology, and its presence in art and literature.
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