<span>Emblems in the visual arts use motifs which have meanings, and in Emblems in Scotland Michael Bath, leading authority on Renaissance emblem books, shows how such symbolic motifs address major historical issues of Anglo-Scottish relations, the Reformation of the Church and the Union of the Crow
Kailyard and Scottish Literature. (Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature)
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- Year
- 2007
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- English
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- 269
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- Library
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