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oai:doaj.org/article:e7158aef728d4f8795519c1f01520b40

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10.4000/episteme.12025

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The emblem and its modalities as a powerful panegric

Abstract

This paper analyses how, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, emblems and their variations (devices, imprese, hieroglyphs, etc.) were used as political panegyrics and instruments of propaganda. Although my study includes various European examples, I will focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain. I will analyse in particular the entries of some queens, a poetic-emblematic contest held at the University of Alcalá de Henares which was organised to receive the young King Felipe III and his wife, Margaret of Austria, the funerals organised by the Jesuits in honour of their protector, the Empress María de Austria (Madrid, 1603), Felipe II’s sister, as well as the gifts – manuscripts and printed texts – which were presented to sovereigns and members of the high nobility.The purpose of these hybrid pieces (combining words and images) was to exalt the virtues and qualities of the celebrated figures, to highlight the outsanding actions of their lives and to offer them as models to those who attended the celebrations. Sometimes printed or handwritten testimonies of these celebrations remain, but they were mostly ephemeral ceremonies.

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