Papers presented at conferences held July 13-14, 2007, Birkbeck College, University of London, and Sept. 12-13, 2008, Victoria and Albert Museum. Includes index.
Contents:
Printed images and the Reformation -- Printed images in science and cartography -- Printed images and politics -- Printed images and aspects of late seventeenth-century English culture.
Summary:
Ranging from religion to politics, polemic to satire, natural science to consumer culture, this collection explores how printed images need to be read in terms of the visual syntax understood by contemporaries.
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