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

Title
The invention of the emblem book and the transmission of knowledge, ca. 1510-1610 / by Karl A.E. Enenkel.
Author
Enenkel, K. A. E.
Publication
  • Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Description
xxxv, 463 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles; 25 cm.
Summary
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 emblems. It demonstrates that the "father of emblematics" had vernacular forebears, most importantly Johann von Schwarzenberg who composed two illustrated emblem books between 1510 and 1520.The study sheds light on the early development of the Latin emblem book 1531-1610, with special emphasis on the invention of the emblematic commentary, on natural history, and on advanced methods of conveying emblematic knowledge, from Junius to Vaenius.
Series Statement
  • Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 295
  • Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 36
Uniform Title
  • 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
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-457) and index.
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 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
Call Number
JFE 19-4377
ISBN
  • 9789004355255
  • 9004355251
  • 9789004387256 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2018047368
OCLC
1056198136
Author
Enenkel, K. A. E., author.
Title
The invention of the emblem book and the transmission of knowledge, ca. 1510-1610 / by Karl A.E. Enenkel.
Publisher
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 295
Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 36
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.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-457) and index.
Chronological Term
1500-1699
Other Form:
Online version: Enenkel, K. A. E., author. Invention of the emblem book and the transmission of knowledge, ca. 1510-1610 Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004387256 (DLC) 2018056771
Research Call Number
JFE 19-4377
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