Emblematic Structures in Renaissance French Culture.

Cover -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND CREDITS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Part I: Medieval and Early Renaissance Antecedents -- 1 Book Illustration in Medieval France and the Relation between Picture and Text in the Later Middle Ages -- 2 The Allegorical Antecedents -- 3 Proto-emblematics in the Fifteenth Century -- 4 Proto-emblematics in the Early Sixteenth Century -- Part II: Emblems in Renaissance France -- 5 Alciato and the Humanist Background of the Emblem -- 6 The Dissemination of the Emblem Idea in France -- 7 The Construction of the Early French Emblem -- Part III: Emblematics and the Structuring of a Culture -- 8 Emblematics and Court Culture -- 9 Emblematic Structures in Renaissance Literature -- Conclusion -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS -- B -- C -- D -- G -- L -- N -- O -- P -- R -- U -- V -- W -- INDEX OF MOTIFS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- INDEX OF NAMES AND KEY TERMS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Daniel Russell demonstrates how the emblematic forms emerged from the way illustrations were used in late medieval French manuscript culture, how the forms were later disseminated in France, and how they functioned within early modern French culture and society.

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