The European Emblem: Towards an Index Emblematicus

by Peter M. Daly

Emblems--pictorial designs with accompanying mottoes and epigrams-- helped to shape virtually every form of verbal and visual communication in the West during the sixteenth and seventh centuries. A recent re-awakening of scholarly interest in the emblem has brought to light the difficulty of locating and consulting the unorganized mass of available material. Recognizing the need for a large-scale systematic index to the emblem, the editor organized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889200904
• ISBN13: 9780889200906
• Release Date: May 1980
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 166 Pages