Translation and Circulation of Emblems Between England and France (XVI-XVII centuries)

• Grant number: 24/22034-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: July 01, 2025
• End date: June 30, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Luis Filipe Silverio Lima
• Grantee: André Sekkel Cerqueira
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Emblems play a central role in Early Modern studies, as they synthesize commonplaces and articulate in their composition important rhetorical-poetic and theological-political precepts. Between the 16th and 17th centuries, a large number of works of this genre were printed. In studies on the subject, the production of emblems was approached from a national paradigm. However, what is observed in the sources is that books of this genre had a transregional production, as it was common for them to be printed in France to circulate in England, for example. In this research, we propose to study the translations of emblems to understand how their circulation occurred, their impacts on material production, and the reverberations they had on political culture in England from the 17th to the 18th century.