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Author Bath, Michael, author.

Title Emblems in Scotland : motifs and meanings / by Michael Bath.

Publication Info. Boston, Massachusetts : Rodopi, [2018]

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Series Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, 1571-0734 ; volume 28
Scottish cultural review of language and literature. 1571-0734 ; volume 28.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A jester at the crucifixion? The fool at Fowlis -- A city of famous women: Esther Inglis, Georgette de Montenay, and Christine de Pisan -- Protestant emblems: Building the house -- 'Rare shewes and singular inventions': Court festivals and royal baptisms -- Alexander Seton's suburban villa: National emblems and united nations -- Presbyterian preaching: Hieroglyphical paintings in Stirling -- Quarles comes north: Scottish reception of the emblemes -- Mobilising the gap: Ian Hamilton Finlay's inheritance.
Summary Emblems in the visual arts use motifs which have meanings, and in Emblems in Scotland Michael Bath, leading authority on Renaissance emblem books, shows how such symbolic motifs address major historical issues of Anglo-Scottish relations, the Reformation of the Church and the Union of the Crowns. Emblems are enigmas, and successive chapters ask for instance: Why does a late-medieval rood-screen show a jester at the Crucifixion? Why did Elizabeth I send Mary Queen of Scots tapestries showing the power of women to build a feminist City of God? Why did a presbyterian minister of Stirling decorate his manse with hieroglyphics? And why in the twentieth-century did Ian Hamilton Finlay publish a collection of Heroic Emblems ?
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Subject Emblems, National -- Scotland.
Emblems, National.
Scotland.
Material culture -- Scotland -- History.
Material culture.
History.
Politics and culture -- Scotland -- History.
Politics and culture.
REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Bath, Michael. Emblems in Scotland. Boston, Massachusetts : Rodopi, [2018] 9789004364059 (DLC) 2018019414
ISBN 9789004364066 (electronic book)
9004364064 (electronic book)
9789004364059 (Hardback ; acid-free paper)