Emblems in the Free Imperial City
Emblems, Empire, and Identity in Early Modern Nuernberg
Published on 6. March 2024
Book
Hardback
346 pages
978-90-04-69159-9 (ISBN)
Description
Civic virtues were central to early modern Nuernberg's visual culture. These essays in this volume explore Nuernberg as a location from which to study the intersection of art and power. The imperial city was awash in emblems, and they informed most aspects of everyday life. The intent of this collection is to focus new attention on the town hall emblems, while simultaneously expanding the purview of emblem studies, moving from strict iconological approaches to collaborations across methodologies and disciplines.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
624 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-69159-9 (9789004691599)
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Persons
Mara R. Wade, Ph.D. (1985, University of Michigan) is professor emerita of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a past president (2020-22) of the Renaissance Society of America. She has published widely on emblems, court studies of Germany and Scandinavia, gender studies, and German literature and the arts in the early modern period. She is an associate editor of Emblematica: Essays in Word and Image and the PI for Emblematica Online.
Christopher D. Fletcher, Ph.D. (2015) is Assistant Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He has published articles, book chapters, and co-edited volumes on religion and various forms of public engagement in medieval and early modern Europe, including emblems. He often shares the Newberry's pre-1800 collections with the public through in-person collection presentations, exhibitions, social media, and digital resources.
Andrew C. Schwenk is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation focuses on imaginative travel and its relationship to social change in early modern German literature.
Christopher D. Fletcher, Ph.D. (2015) is Assistant Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He has published articles, book chapters, and co-edited volumes on religion and various forms of public engagement in medieval and early modern Europe, including emblems. He often shares the Newberry's pre-1800 collections with the public through in-person collection presentations, exhibitions, social media, and digital resources.
Andrew C. Schwenk is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation focuses on imaginative travel and its relationship to social change in early modern German literature.
Content
Preface
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Nuernberg in the Seventeenth Century: Seeing an Early Modern City through Emblems
?Christopher D. Fletcher
2 "Inscriptiones Picturae et Emblemata": How Nuernberg's Town Hall Emblems Came to the Newberry Library, Chicago
?Mara R. Wade
3 The Exterior of Nuernberg's Rathaus and the Art of Good Government
?Jeffrey Chipps Smith
4 Images as Language: Duerer, the Triumphal Arch and the Emblem in Nuernberg
?Thomas Schauerte
5 The Migration of Emblems through Nuernberg's History: From Triumph to Civic Memory
?Tamar Cholcman
6 Some Examples of Applied Arts from the Free Imperial City of Nuernberg
?Silvia Glaser
7 Rem's Emblemata Politica in Context. Political Emblem Books in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
?Victoria Gutsche
8 Old and New Town Hall Emblems: Johann Conrad Rhumelius and the Emblemata Curialia Auctiora of 1629
?Werner Wilhelm Schnabel
9 The Life of Dr. Georg Rem: Transcription and Translation of Siegmund Jakob Apin's "VITA D. GEORGII REMI" 1721 (introduced by Mara. R. Wade)
?Jessica R. Wells
10 Mapping the Hand and Scanning the Forehead: Embedding Knowledge in Astrological Images
?Stephanie Leitch
11 Adding the Roetenbeck Manuscript to Emblematica Online, A Virtual Corpus for Research and Teaching
?Timothy W. Cole
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1 Nuernberg in the Seventeenth Century: Seeing an Early Modern City through Emblems
?Christopher D. Fletcher
2 "Inscriptiones Picturae et Emblemata": How Nuernberg's Town Hall Emblems Came to the Newberry Library, Chicago
?Mara R. Wade
3 The Exterior of Nuernberg's Rathaus and the Art of Good Government
?Jeffrey Chipps Smith
4 Images as Language: Duerer, the Triumphal Arch and the Emblem in Nuernberg
?Thomas Schauerte
5 The Migration of Emblems through Nuernberg's History: From Triumph to Civic Memory
?Tamar Cholcman
6 Some Examples of Applied Arts from the Free Imperial City of Nuernberg
?Silvia Glaser
7 Rem's Emblemata Politica in Context. Political Emblem Books in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century
?Victoria Gutsche
8 Old and New Town Hall Emblems: Johann Conrad Rhumelius and the Emblemata Curialia Auctiora of 1629
?Werner Wilhelm Schnabel
9 The Life of Dr. Georg Rem: Transcription and Translation of Siegmund Jakob Apin's "VITA D. GEORGII REMI" 1721 (introduced by Mara. R. Wade)
?Jessica R. Wells
10 Mapping the Hand and Scanning the Forehead: Embedding Knowledge in Astrological Images
?Stephanie Leitch
11 Adding the Roetenbeck Manuscript to Emblematica Online, A Virtual Corpus for Research and Teaching
?Timothy W. Cole