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Emblems in Scotland: Motifs and Meanings

Emblems in Scotland: Motifs and Meanings

Hardcover

Genealogy & HeraldryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004364056
ISBN13: 9789004364059
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 19 2018
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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?

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