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The Emblematic Queen has something of the threefold structure of a Renaissance emblem. If we let the editor’s introduction stand as inscriptio, and the collected chapters as pictura this Afterword provides an interpretive subscriptio. It is my job to provide a concise explanatory comment about the chapters’ larger significance. Nothing could be more intimidating, since this book brings home the extent to which picturae carry meanings that resist summary. Since different audiences will read these chapters in different ways, I will hardly have the last word. My job is actually to encourage further conversation.
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Whitney, A Choice of Emblemes and other devises Englished and Moralized (Leyden, 1586), 12.
Henry Green, Andrea Alciati and His Book of Emblems (London, 1872), 43–44.
Michael M. Braddock, “England and Wales,” esp. chap. 2, in The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, ed. Raymond Joad (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 17–30.
Alexandra Walsham, “The Spider and the Bee: The Perils of Printing for Refutation in Tudor England,” in Tudor Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 163–90.
John Watkins, “Marriage à la Mode, 1559: Elisabeth de Valois, Elizabeth I, and the Changing Practice of Dynastic Marriage,” in Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England ed. Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009),76–97.
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Watkins, J. (2013). Afterword. In: Barrett-Graves, D. (eds) The Emblematic Queen. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137303103_9
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