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Biographical note
Willem Elders, Ph.D. (1968) in Musicology, State University of Utrecht, is retired Professor of Music History before 1600 at that same university. He has published extensively on music of the Renaissance.
Readership
All those interested in musical and intellectual history, the history of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Reviews
'...there is much in this book to ponder and enjoy.'
Martin Picker, NOTES, 1995.
Martin Picker, NOTES, 1995.
€152.00$197.00
This re-examination of alchemical engravings of the late Renaissance uses an innovative semiotic method in analysing their geometrical and optical rhetorical devices. The images are contextualised within contemporary metaphysics, specifically, the discourse of light, and in Protestant reformism.
€160.00$207.00
This collection of articles in English and German covers a wide range of interdisciplinary topics of historical and modern manifestations of rhetoric in literature, linguistics, philosophy, law, theology, education, politics, and intellectual history.
€172.00$223.00
This publication is the first of its kind. It approaches Anglo-Dutch relations from the angle of the production of the highly popular emblem book and its influence on important cultural and political events, mainly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
€150.00$194.00
The present volume contains eighteen papers of a conference devoted to iconography and emblem studies. The essays represent the state of research and are arranged according to the following aspects: Iconography and Ideology, Iconography and History, The World of Emblems and Occult Emblematics.
€266.00$345.00
This comprehensive bibliography lists some 500 source texts published in the British Isles or abroad from 1479 to 1660 and more than 2,000 works of secondary literature from 1900 to the present.
€197.00$255.00
This collection of nineteen essays focuses on the ways in which, in England, France and Spain, the Renaissance made propagandistic, or aesthetic, use of the image in various spectacles. Under surface differences between genres, what emerges is a surprising similarity in tactics and response, ...
€144.00$187.00
A selection of papers read at the first international conference devoted exclusively to emblematics. The papers have been selected with an eye to representing various national traditions in emblematics and various, currently active, approaches to the emblem.
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