Emblems of death in the early modern period
By: edited by Monica Calabritto and Peter Daly
Series: Cahiers d'humanisme et renaissance -- v. 120; Cahiers d'humanisme et Renaissance -- v. 120.
Publisher: Droz
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Geneve
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9782600015578
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Death; European Emblem books; Emblems in art; Emblems; Emblems in literature; Death in literature; Death in art; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English, with one contribution in French.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Death and emblems  -- Monica Calabritto and Peter M. Daly; title: Emblems of death in German  -- Peter M. Daly; title: Death is in the "I" of the beholder: early modern English emblems of death  -- Tamara Goeglein; title: Pardurable, peu durable: les Emblèmes de Langue franc̦aise devant la Mort  -- Paulette Choné; title: Eschatology, soteriology and trickery of death in Spanish funeral emblems  -- Pedro F. Campa; title: The motif of death in the literary emblematics of Hungary  -- Gábor Tüskes and Éva Knapp; title: Time, death and device. Subjectivity and biographical experience in the funeral imprese of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy  -- Massimo Rinaldi; title: Emblems of death in neo-Latin  -- Peter M. Daly; title: Jesuit emblems of death  -- G. Richard Dimler, S.J.; title: Emblems of death in Poland  -- Paulina Buchwald-Pelcowa; title: Emblems of death in Portugal  -- Rubem Amaral Jr.; title: Dying for one's country: emblems of sacrifice and punishment  -- Donato Mansueto; title: Negotiating death and sorrow in Swedish emblematics -- Peter M. Daly.