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Mundus Emblematicus Studies in Neo-Latin Emblem Books

      Brepols Publishers. New PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled. The thirteen articles in this volume deal with the Neo-Latin emblem book after the birth of the genre with Andrea Alciato's "Emblematum libellus (1531). While the interest in emblematics has grown considerably during the last decades, the seminal Neo-Latin production has received relatively little attention. In "Mundus Emblematicus an international team of experts in the field makes this part of the emblem tradition accessible to a broad scholarly audience. The articles cover a variety of emblem books published at the time, ranging from influential humanist collections to alchemist or religious emblems. In each paper, subjects include the historical context of the work and its makers, the relation between word and image, the structure of the collection as a whole, and the emblematic game. Moreover, several articles explore the interaction between the emblem and connected literary phenomena, like the commonplace-book, the fable or the use of commentaries. All papers are in English and all examples from Latin texts are translated. ISBN10: 250351202X.