Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) was regarded by sixteenth century Europe as one of the
most contested religious and philosophical authorities. He was cast as a characteristically …

The emblem is one of the most remarkable literary inventions of Renaissance humanism.
The symbolic imagery presented in these Neo-Latin emblem books constituted an important …

Historic furniture has a great ethnographic and historical value, as styles and designs responded
to specific uses, fashion trends and the social status of the buyer or the commissioner. …

The thirteen articles in this volume deal with the Neo-Latin emblem book after the birth of the
genre with Andrea Alciato’s Emblematum libellus (1531). While the interest in emblematics …

In this article the first portrait book of physicians and philosophers, Joannes Sambucus'
Veterum aliquot ac recentium medicorum philosophorumque Icones [...] (Antwerp: Christopher …

In the period of the Reformation, patristic knowledge became one of the most contested
fields of erudition. Newly emerging theological problems prompted a quest for authoritative …

In his emblem ‘Avaritia huius saeculi’(The greed of this time [170]), Sambucus does not seem
very content with the cultural climate of his time (fig. 15). In an echo of Martial he vents his …

This contribution to the Oxford Studies in Historical Theology series is less about historical
theology than about the history of the book and of reading practices. It presents only one slice …

When Sambucus completed his preface, in January 1564, he had not yet seen the final result
of the woodcutters’ activity. 1 His introduction was written before the epigrams were typeset …

In trying to recapture the historical figure Joannes Sambucus (János Zsámboky), the modern
historian is confronted with a by no means unequivocal relationship between an author and …