The Emblem in Renaissance and Baroque Europe: Tradition and Variety: Selected Papers of the Glasgow International Emblem Conference, 13-17 August, 199 (Symbola Et Emblemata , No 3) - Hardcover

The volume is a cross-section of contributions to the Glasgow International Emblem Conference 1990, and demonstrates the range of research currently under way into the emblem tradition in the Renaissance and Baroque periods and the variety of its development across the centuries in many European countries. The seventeen papers are arranged here in broad national and thematic groupings, showing the emblem tradition in France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany, Britain, within the field of alchemy, and extending into wider European traditions. The volume is generously illustrated, and an index is provided for the orientation of the reader. An impression of the richness of the European emblem tradition is given for the general reader, whilst the specialist is provided with a comprehensive insight into the many and varied strands of current emblem research and the diversity of approach adopted by scholars internationally.

Alison Adams is Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of French at the University of Glasgow. She was the Organizing Secretary of the Glasgow International Emblem Conference 1990 and is the Editor of the Newsletter of the Society for Emblem Studies. Originally a medievalist with publications in that field, she has for the last few years turned her attention to emblem studies and published a number of articles on Alciato. Anthony J. Harper is professor and Head of German Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. His main research field is German and Northern European Literature of the Renaissance and Baroque. Recent publications: The Song-Books of Gottfried Finckelthaus (1988), Christian Brehme, Lustige Gedichte 1637 (crit. ed., due in 1992), Studien zum dt. weltlichen Lied des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts (1992).