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The Marks Of Monitory Memory: An Analysis Of The Shepheard Buss Rebus In Light Of The Moral Agenda Of Claude Paradin’s Heroicall Devices, J. R. Rallens

A preoccupation with virtue was embodied in many literary and aesthetic forms in early modern England, including the popular genre of emblem books. This paper will suggest that a moralizing emblem book, 'The Heroicall Devices of M. Claudius Paradin,' provides key insight into aspects of an obscure embroidery known as The Shepheard Buss (c.1570-1600), which borrows many of its images from Paradin's work. In context of the early modern connection of memory and virtue and Paradin's stated goal of cultivating virtue through memorable emblems, this paper suggests that the Shepheard Buss might be better understood in part as a monitory memorialization of Early Modern virtue.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
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