Gutsche V (2024)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2024
Publisher: Brill
Edited Volumes: Emblems in the Free Imperial City. Emblems, Empire, and Identity in Early Modern Nürnberg
Series: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History
City/Town: Leiden & Boston
Book Volume: 73
Pages Range: 178-196
ISBN: 9789004691605
DOI: 10.1163/9789004691605_008
Political emblem books experienced their heyday primarily at the beginning of the seventeenth century, although this subgenre of emblem books was revisited repeatedly throughout the century. They explain what policy, state, and good governance means for different publics. Thus, political emblematic books in the early modern period represent an important means for disseminating knowledge about good governance. The paper focuses on the three first political emblem books: Bruck-Angermundt’s Emblemata Politica (published in 1618, drafted in 1612), Zincgref’s Emblematum ethico-politicorum centuria (1619, announced in 1617) and Rem’s Emblemata Politica (1617), which are analyzed in more detail, through one specific emblem found in each (the lion that spares the vanquished). The analysis focuses, on the one hand, on the relation between explicit references to concrete historical situations and the imparting of general norms and, on the other, on the emblem books’ form, structure, sources, addressees, and so on. The paper shows how the books also refer very specifically to the respective historical circumstances and that good governance was defined differently in certain political and historical contexts.
APA:
Gutsche, V. (2024). Rem’s Emblemata Politica in Context: Political Emblem Books in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century. In Mara R. Wade, Christopher D. Fletcher, Andrew C. Schwenk (Eds.), Emblems in the Free Imperial City. Emblems, Empire, and Identity in Early Modern Nürnberg. (pp. 178-196). Leiden & Boston: Brill.
MLA:
Gutsche, Victoria. "Rem’s Emblemata Politica in Context: Political Emblem Books in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century." Emblems in the Free Imperial City. Emblems, Empire, and Identity in Early Modern Nürnberg. Ed. Mara R. Wade, Christopher D. Fletcher, Andrew C. Schwenk, Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2024. 178-196.
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