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.

External links

• Memorialising Mary: The Monument to Mary Queen of Scots. Society for Emblem Studies. October 2020