Anglo-Dutch Relations in the Field of the Emblem

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-04-10868-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 253 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Symbola et Emblemata

This volume deals with the interrelation between English and Dutch culture as it emerged in the field of the emblem and the emblem book in the 16th and 17th centuries. The traffic of emblems was mostly from the Low Countries to England. The very first printed English emblem book, by Geffrey Whitney, was printed in Leiden in 1586. One of the last English emblem books to be published in the 17th century, by Philip Ayres (1683) goes straight back to the Dutch love emblem tradition (Heinsius, Vaenius, et al.).
The reasons for this mainly one-way traffic are manifold. For one thing the best engravers and printers were to be found in the Low Countries. For another the Church of England also accommodated adaptations of the highly popular continental Jesuit emblem books of the early 17th century.
The book consists of fourteen original articles, by a wide range of specialists in the field, each of whom addresses a different aspect of the general subject.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Westerweel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bath, Michael

Bostoen, Karel

Daly, Peter

Davidson, Peter

Dundas, Judith

Gardner, Susan

Josef Höltgen, Karl

Mantz, Douglas

Nicholson, P.J.

Raasveld, Paul

Scholz, Bernhard

Smith, Mark S.

Waterschoot, Werner

Young, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Nicht-Graphische Kunstformen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Typographie, Illustrationskunst, Werbegraphik

Über Autor(innen)

Bart Westerweel, Ph.D. (1983) is Professor of English Renaissance Literature and Director of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute at the University of Leiden. Recently he edited a book on Anglo-Irish Literary History (Amsterdam/Atlanta, 1995), and published on Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, emblems, and the Gothic novel.