The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furnitu

The discourse of political counsel in early modern Europe depended on the participation of men, as both counsellors and counselled. Women were often thought too

This study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. I

An investigation of the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages with the following texts in European books published