The invention of the emblem book and the transmission of knowledge, ca. 1510-1610

The invention of the emblem book and the transmission of knowledge, ca. 1510-1610 / by Karl A.E. Enenkel.

This study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. It offers a fresh analysis of Alciato's Emblematum liber , focusing on his poetics of the emblem, and on how he actually construed emble...

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Main Author: Enenkel, K. A. E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 295.
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 36.
Subjects:
1500-1699
Emblem books, European > History > 16th century.
Emblem books, European > History > 17th century.
Emblems > Euopre > History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Emblem books, European
Emblems
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Illustrations; Part 1 Alciato; Chapter 1 The Emblematization of Nature, and the Poetics of Alciato's Epigrams; 1 Introduction; 2 Curiosities of Natural History; 3 Ekphrases of Works of Art; 4 Animal Poems, Drawn from the Greek Anthology, and the Aesopean Tradition; 5 Emblematic Constructions Based on Ovid's Metamorphoses; 6 The Description of Character Types through the Emblematization of Animals; 7 In Conclusion; Part 2 Vernacular Forerunners of Alciato's Emblematum Liber
  • Chapter 2 A Manuscript Emblem Book before Alciato: Johann von Schwarzenberg's Mirror of Religious Virtue (Memorial der Tugent, ca. 1510-1512)1 Introduction; 2 Schwarzenberg's Ideas about the Combination of Text and Image
  • Congruences with the Emblematum Liber; 3 The Dichotomous Structure of Schwarzenberg's Emblems: Res significantes and res significatae; 4 Variations of the Dichotomous Structure; 5 A Catholic Emblem Book; 6 In Conclusion: The Transmission of Knowledge in Schwarzenberg's Emblematic Constructions
  • Chapter 3 A Printed Emblem Book before Alciato: Johann von Schwarzenberg's Emblematization of Cicero's De officiis as a Mirror of Political Virtue1 A Printed Emblem Book before Alciato's Emblematum Liber; 2 The Genesis of the Emblematic De officiis; 3 The Transformation of De officiis into an Emblematic and Christian Mirror of Princes; 4 Emblematic Means for the Philosophical Education of Laymen: Proverbs, Similes, Moral Conclusions; 5 Political Realism
  • A Kind of Machiavellization of De officiis avant la lettre?; 6 Monarchization of De officiis; 7 Emblems against Tyranny; 8 In Conclusion
  • Part 3 The Emblematic Commentary as a Means of Transmitting KnowledgeChapter 4 The Transformation of the Emblem Book into an Encyclopaedia: Stockhamer's Commentary on Alciato (1551/1556); 1 Introduction: The Impact of a Commentary on the Genre of the Emblem Book; 2 Stockhamer's Commentary on Alciato and His Humanist Learning; 3 Stockhamer's Commentary and the Transmission of Knowledge: The Construction of an Encyclopaedic Compendium; 4 The Emblematic Commentary as a Combination of Various Types of Encyclopaedia's: Natural History, Etymology, Mythology, Grammar, and Collections of Proverbs
  • 5 ConclusionChapter 5 The Game of Emblematic Interpretation and Emblematic Authorship: Hadrianus Junius' Emblemata (1565); 1 Introduction; 2 The Enigmatic Structure of the Emblems, and the Enigma of the Author's Self-Commentary; 3 Potential Models for Junius' Commentary?; 4 The Function of Junius' Commentary: Authorization of Emblematic Interpretations, Transmission of Emblematic Knowledge, and Collection of Commonplaces; 5 The Game of Emblematic Interpretation and Emblematic Authorship; Part 4 Advanced Emblematic Transmission of Knowledge

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