7.00 CHAPTER SEVEN: Emblems in the Classroom

There is rarely anything completely new in educational publishing, but one genre of humanist writing, the emblem book, was invented in the sixteenth century. In fact we know the exact moment, December 1522! Emblems -- poems with pictures -- were widely used for preaching and teaching, and this chapter considers their classroom use in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

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