Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.
Contents:
Recent emblem theory -- The importance of emblems -- Truth in emblems -- Emblems as transmitters of knowledge and traditions -- Mnemonics and emblems -- Are emblem inscriptiones always mottoes? -- Is there visual rhetoric in some emblem pictures? -- How were and how are emblems read? -- On the interpretation of emblems -- Jesuit emblems : in the service of God, man, or the Society of Jesus?
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