Emblematic Images and Religious Texts: Studies in Honor of G. Richard Dimler, S.J.

Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts

by Pedro F. Campa, Peter M. Daly

No single group in early modern Europe produced as many emblem books as the Society of Jesus. G. Richard Dimler, S.J., has been a pioneer in the field of Jesuit emblem scholarship. With publications and conference presentations spanning more than forty years on various aspects of the Jesuit emblem, Fr. Dimler has almost single-handedly put Jesuit emblematics on the international scholarly map. His foundational contribution to emblem studies was recognized by Fordham University in 1999, when it named him Research Professor of Jesuit Emblem Studies, and, more recently, with the awarding of emeritus status. Emblematic Images and Religious Texts: Studies in Honor of G. Richard Dimler, S.J., is a tribute by sixteen emblem scholars from the U.S., U.K., and Europe to his pioneering scholarship.

364 pages, Hardcover

First published March 31, 2010