近代早期欧洲的会徽：对会徽理论的贡献

会徽在现代欧洲早期是一项大生意，不仅广泛用于印刷书籍和大张，还用于装饰陶器、金属制品、家具、玻璃和窗户以及许多其他家庭、宗教和政治物品。在最基本的层面上，象征是象征性的视觉形象和文字的结合，象征是文字和图片的混合体。然而，正如这本书所展示的，理解准确且往往是多重的含义、意图和所传达的信息标志可能是一个非常棘手的过程。在这本书中，彼得·戴利借鉴了多年的研究成果，反思了近年来学术界对徽章的兴趣和重新发现的热潮。本书首先考虑了徽章研究中提出的一些很少被问到但很重要的问题，包括徽章的重要性、徽章的真实价值以及通过徽章传递知识，然后进一步研究了更密切关注的方面，如记忆法、格言和视觉修辞的作用。本书最后回顾了一些可能考虑不足的问题，如耶稣会士的角色（他在所有已知会徽书籍的出版中扮演了大约四分之一的角色），以及这些混合结构是如何实际阅读和解释的问题。这项研究利用了一个包含6514本徽章和纪念册记录的数据库，为学者们提出了新的方法来处理徽章标准著作中尚未令人满意地提出的重要问题。
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The Emblem in Early Modern Europe: Contributions to the Theory of the Emblem
The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At its most basic level simply a combination of symbolic visual image and texts, an emblem is a hybrid composed of words and picture. However, as this book demonstrates, understanding the precise and often multiple meaning, intention and message emblems conveyed can prove a remarkably slippery process. In this book, Peter Daly draws upon many years’ research to reflect upon the recent upsurge in scholarly interest in, and rediscovery of, emblems following years of relative neglect. Beginning by considering some of the seldom asked, but important, questions that the study of emblems raises, including the importance of the emblem, the truth value of emblems, and the transmission of knowledge through emblems, the book then moves on to investigate more closely-focussed aspects such as the role of mnemonics, mottoes and visual rhetoric. The volume concludes with a review of some perhaps inadequately considered issues such as the role of Jesuits (who had a role in the publication of about a quarter of all known emblem books), and questions such as how these hybrid constructs were actually read and interpreted. Drawing upon a database containing records of 6,514 books of emblems and imprese, this study suggests new ways for scholars to approach important questions that have not yet been satisfactorily broached in the standard works on emblems.
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