Sabbatical Toon Van Houdt: Preparing the publication of a scholarly book on the Latin emblem volume ‘Typus mundi’ (1627) KU Leuven
As mentioned, the sabbatical, if granted, will be used - in close collaboration with colleague Marc Van Vaeck - to carry out a thorough study of the important but hitherto hardly studied emblem collection Typus mundi (1627), with a view to a publication in the series 'Imago Figurata' of publisher Brepols in Turnhout. The Latin emblem collection Typus mundi is special for two reasons. First and foremost, it was not the work of established ...