Emblems in the Free Imperial City

Mara R. Wade, Ph.D. (1985, University of Michigan) is professor emerita of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a past president (2020–22) of the Renaissance Society of America. She has published widely on emblems, court studies of Germany and Scandinavia, gender studies, and German literature and the arts in the early modern period. She is an associate editor of Emblematica: Essays in Word and Image and the PI for Emblematica Online.Christopher D. Fletcher, Ph.D. (2015) is Assistant Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He has published articles, book chapters, and co-edited volumes on religion and various forms of public engagement in medieval and early modern Europe, including emblems. He often shares the Newberry’s pre-1800 collections with the public through in-person collection presentations, exhibitions, social media, and digital resources. Andrew C. Schwenk is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Germanic Languages & Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation focuses on imaginative travel and its relationship to social change in early modern German literature.

• PrefaceList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Nürnberg in the Seventeenth Century: Seeing an Early Modern City through EmblemsChristopher D. Fletcher2 “Inscriptiones Picturæ et Emblemata”: How Nürnberg’s Town Hall Emblems Came to the Newberry Library, ChicagoMara R. Wade3 The Exterior of Nürnberg’s Rathaus and the Art of Good GovernmentJeffrey Chipps Smith4 Images as Language: Dürer, the Triumphal Arch and the Emblem in NürnbergThomas Schauerte5 The Migration of Emblems through Nürnberg’s History: From Triumph to Civic MemoryTamar Cholcman6 Some Examples of Applied Arts from the Free Imperial City of NürnbergSilvia Glaser7 Rem’s Emblemata Politica in Context. Political Emblem Books in the First Half of the Seventeenth CenturyVictoria Gutsche8 Old and New Town Hall Emblems: Johann Conrad Rhumelius and the Emblemata Curialia Auctiora of 1629Werner Wilhelm Schnabel9 The Life of Dr. Georg Rem: Transcription and Translation of Siegmund Jakob Apin’s “VITA D. GEORGII REMI” 1721 (introduced by Mara. R. Wade)Jessica R. Wells10 Mapping the Hand and Scanning the Forehead: Embedding Knowledge in Astrological ImagesStephanie Leitch11 Adding the Rötenbeck Manuscript to Emblematica Online, A Virtual Corpus for Research and TeachingTimothy W. Cole