Emblems in Scotland

Motifs and Meanings

Michael Bath (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

374 Seiten

2018
Brill (Verlag)
9789004364059 (ISBN)

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Emblems in the visual arts use motifs which have meanings, and in this ground-breaking, richly illustrated book Michael Bath, leading authority on Renaissance emblem books, shows how such symbolic motifs in Scotland address major historical issues of Anglo-Scottish relations.

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?

Michael Bath, Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies in the University of Strathclyde and Senior Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, is President of the Society for Emblem Studies. He is author of numerous books and articles on art history, emblem studies and Reading Poetry.

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

1 A Jester at the Crucifixion? The Fool at Fowlis

2 A City of Famous Women: Esther Inglis, Georgette de Montenay, and Christine de Pisan

3 Protestant Emblems: Building the House

4 ‘Rare shewes and singular inventions’: Court Festivals and Royal Baptisms

5 Alexander Seton’s Suburban Villa: Neostoical Emblems and United Nations

6 Presbyterian Preaching: Hieroglyphical Paintings in Stirling

7 Quarles Comes North: Scottish Reception of the Emblemes

8 Mobilising the Gap: Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Inheritance

References

Photograph Credits

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; 28
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	726 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-13	9789004364059 / 9789004364059
Zustand	Neuware