REVIEWS: Emblems and the Natural World. Karl A. E. Enenkel, and Paul J. Smith, eds. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 50. Leiden: Brill, 2017. xxxiv + 666 pp. $253

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 72; no. 1; pp. 281 - 283
• Main Author: Smid, Deanna
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2019
• Subjects: Early modern period; Essays; Interdisciplinary aspects; Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715); Symbolism

After what felt like an interminable winter, the tulips have begun to emerge, and the first robin has appeared. Since we read the changing of the seasons by signs, it is hardly surprising that emblems, a genre that blends the visual, textual, and symbolic so tightly, would draw their inspiration pri...