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The 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.

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Some concepts deriving from ancient and medieval writings on music (considered in its philosophial, theoretical and practical aspects) as well as descriptions of contemporary musical practice, began to find a place in English literature in didactic and allegorical poems of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. This book is based on research into English and continental emblem books and poems, and is thematically arranged. The first section considers the important theme of the 'effects of music', particularly within political and civic contexts. The second section is about the union of music and love, an ancient theme alternately imbued with positive or negative connotations. The final section explores the relationship between music and emblem books and how the same ideas were elaborated in some literary and visual works of the time.

820-84 --- 094:82-84 --- 76.045 --- 769.04:78 --- Engelse literatuur: spreuken; citaten --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Emblemen. Spreuken. Citaten --- Symbolische voorstellingen: allegorieën; dodendansen in de prentkunst --- Prentenverzamelingen in de grafische kunsten. Iconografie. Iconologie-:-Muziek --- Emblem books, English --- Emblem books, European --- English poetry --- Music in art. --- Music in literature. --- History --- History and criticism. --- 769.04:78 Prentenverzamelingen in de grafische kunsten. Iconografie. Iconologie-:-Muziek --- 76.045 Symbolische voorstellingen: allegorieën; dodendansen in de prentkunst --- 094:82-84 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Emblemen. Spreuken. Citaten --- 820-84 Engelse literatuur: spreuken; citaten --- History and criticism --- Music in art --- Music in literature --- English emblem books --- Music --- Musical iconography --- European emblem books --- Iconography