Michael Bath (academic)

Michael Bath is an academic and author specialising in English literature and history. He is an emeritus professor of the University of Strathclyde and a senior research fellow at the University of Glasgow.

Michael Bath studied at Keble College, Oxford. Bath taught English literature at the University of Strathclyde. He was joint founder and a chairman of the Society for Emblem Studies and a co-editor of the journal Emblematica. His published work explores symbolism and transmission of meaning in poetry and renaissance material culture.[1][2]

Publications

  • (with Tom Furniss), Reading Poetry:A Complete Coursebook, 3rd edition (Routledge, 2022).
  • Emblems in Scotland: Motifs and Meanings (Brill, Leiden, 2018).[3]
  • (with Theo Van Heijnsbergen), "Paradin Politicized: Some New Sources for Scottish Paintings", Emblematica, 22 (2016), pp. 43–67.
  • (with Malcolm Jones), "Placardes and Billis and Ticquettis of Defamatioun: Queen Mary, the Mermaid and the Hare", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 78:1 (2015), pp. 223–246. doi:10.1086/JWCI26321955
  • The Four Seasons Tapestries at Hatfield House (London: Archetype, 2013).
  • "Rare shewes and singular inventions: The Stirling Baptism of Prince Henry", Journal of the Northern Renaissance, Issue 4, 2012
  • Emblems for a Queen: the Needlework of Mary Queen of Scots (London: Archetype, 2008).
  • "Embroidered emblems: Mary Stuart's Bed of State", Emblematica, 15 (2007), pp. 5–32.
  • "Alciato and the Earl of Arran", Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, 13 (2003), pp. 39–52.
  • Renaissance Decorative Painting in Scotland (Edinburgh: NMS, 2003).
  • "The sources of John Abbott's pattern book", Architectural History, 4 (1998), pp. 49–66.
  • Speaking Pictures, English Emblem Books & Renaissance Culture (London: Longman, 1994).[4]
  • "Tennis in Emblems", in The Royal Game (Falkland Palace Tennis Club, 1989), pp. 44–67.
  • "Weeping Stags and Melancholy Lovers: The Iconography of As You Like It", Emblematica 1 (1986), pp. 13–52.

References

  1. ^ "Contributors", Victorian Popular Fictions, 4:1 (Spring 2022).
  2. ^ History of the Society of Emblem Studies
  3. ^ Crawford Gribben, "Review", Journal of the Northern Renaissance, May 2020
  4. ^ William E. Engel, "Book Reviews", The Sixteenth Century Journal, 25:4 (Winter 1994), pp. 1110–1112.
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