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"The art of the emblem is a pan-European phenomenon which developed in Western and Central Europe in the early modern period. It adopted meanings and motifs from Antiquity and the Middle Ages as part of a general humanistic impulse. Technological developments in printing that permitted the combination of letterpress with woodblock, and later copperplate, images, ensured that the emblem spread rapidly by way of printed collections. With time, emblematic ideas moved beyond Europe, conveying their insights and wisdom in the compact form of the book. These same books came to influence artists and designers working in the decoration of buildings, furniture, and household items, so that emblems entered personal life; they infiltrated festive culture, too. In such environments beyond the book, emblems were transported, adapted, and embedded in new functional contexts shaped by social, political, or religious conditions, but also by architectonical and regional art historical parameters. The results of these transformations are often of an intricate and complex meaning. The combination of word and image that constitutes the emblem still has resonance in contemporary art and architecture. The study of emblems allows us to look back at the collaborative endeavours of creative minds of earlier times from across Europe and beyond. At a time when that continent is under strain, and the world in general seeks to come to terms with globalization, emblems allow reflection on strongly shared cultural values and connections."

Emblems --- Emblems in literature --- History

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The main aim of the work is to present emblematics in Hungary in its European context, and to show the reciprocal influence between that phenomenon and mainstream literature. The description of the theoretical and historical development in Hungary is supplemented by a series of case studies examining the effect of emblematics upon various literary genres. The final chapter analyzes the link between literary emblematics and the visual arts by looking at a specific example. As in most European countries, emblematics in Hungary is part of a complex labyrinth of literary modes of thought and expression. A relative poverty of theoretical writing went hand in hand with a considerable range of emblematic practice. The emblem proved to be a transitional form between the period when signs and motifs were regarded as having specific and fixed meanings and the modern period when we have developed a different and shifting concept of language and meaning. At the same time as emblems began to penetrate the more popular levels of national culture and literature, they also became more specialized. Hungarian emblematics used, for the most part, existing pictorial and textual combinations of pictures and texts. They employed the emblem notably in genres and texts of the genus demonstrativum, which referred to matters which were topical at the time.

Baroque literature --- Emblems in literature. --- European literature --- Hungarian literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Magyar literature --- Balkan literature --- Emblems in literature

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Emblem books, Latin --- Emblems in literature. --- Humanists --- History. --- Zsámboki, János, --- Hungary --- Intellectual life

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Emblemen in de literatuur --- Emblems in literature --- Emblèmes dans la littérature --- Brontë, Charlotte --- Brontë, Emily --- Christianity and literature --- England --- History --- Emblems

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German literature --- Graphic arts --- emblems [allegorical pictures] --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Emblems --- Emblems in art --- Emblems in literature --- Heraldry --- Signs and symbols --- Symbolism --- Emblem books --- Congresses --- Emblems - Congresses --- Emblems in art - Congresses --- Emblems in literature - Congresses --- Duitse school