{"id":101,"date":"2017-06-08T11:39:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T16:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/?post_type=presentation&#038;p=101"},"modified":"2017-06-08T11:39:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T16:39:32","slug":"english-emblems-and-the-natural-world-lessons-from-the-bee","status":"publish","type":"presentation","link":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/presentation\/english-emblems-and-the-natural-world-lessons-from-the-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"English Emblems and the Natural World: Lessons from the Bee"},"featured_media":0,"template":"","presentation-type":[11],"class_list":["post-101","presentation","type-presentation","status-publish","hentry","presentation-type-conference-paper"],"cmb2":{"buppl_pre_metabox":{"buppl_pre_date":"1499299200","buppl_pre_presented_at":"11th International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies","buppl_pre_presented_at_url":"","buppl_pre_location":"Nancy, France","buppl_pre_start_date":"","buppl_pre_end_date":"","buppl_pre_abstract":"In what is perhaps the first English emblem book, Geffrey Whitney devotes an emblem with an especially long poem to a description of bees, in which he expresses his longing to return to his home just as bees return faithfully to the hive. Other English emblematists, such as George Wither, follow his example, and use bees as a fairly common symbol, particularly for the ideal commonwealth. The emblem even appears\u2014in naked form\u2014in John Bunyan\u2019s <em>A Book for Boys and Girls<\/em>, in which he writes a brief poem about the honey bee, and then adjures, \u201cThis Bee an Emblem truly is of sin.\u201d During the same time period as the emblem book flourished in England, the nation saw a surge in beekeeping manuals. In such manuals, apiarists advise on the nature of bees and how to tend them. Fascinatingly, many apiarists contend too that bees\u2014living bees\u2014are emblems. Richard Remnant, for instance, in <em><span>A Discourse of the Historie of Bees, <\/span><\/em><span>when describing the characteristics of the queen bee, calls her \u201can emblem.\u201d John Thorley, in<em> Melisselogia,<\/em> <em>Or, The Female Monarchy, <\/em>calls bees \u201cmirrors.\u201d Edward Topsell, as well, in his two tomes on the nature and history of various animals, including the bee, refers specifically to animals, the natural world, and bees as emblems. Indeed, the most famous bee-keeping manual of the early modern period, Charles Butler\u2019s <em>The Feminine Monarchie<\/em>, contains a dedicatory poem by none other than George Wither. The link between bees and emblems, or rather; bees <em>as<\/em> emblems, seems undeniable in the early modern period. This paper, therefore, will consider the early modern bee as both emblem and animal. In other words, what happens to emblems of the bee when the bee, as creature, receives increased attention, and what people know about the physiology and nature of the bee changes? Even more, how do emblems influence what apiarists believe and \u201cdiscover\u201d about bees<\/span>?\r\n\r\nLes embl\u00e8mes anglais et le monde naturel : les le\u00e7ons de l\u2019abeille\r\n\r\nL\u2019abeille est-elle un animal ou un symbole ? Dans son livre d\u2019embl\u00e8mes, Geoffrey Whitney invente un embl\u00e8me sur les abeilles et sur son d\u00e9sir revenir dans son pays. Un autre auteur, George Wither, utilise souvent les abeilles comme un symbole dans son livre. En m\u00eame temps, Richard Remnant (un apiculteur du XVIIe si\u00e8cle) a nomm\u00e9 l\u2019abeille \u201cun embl\u00e8me.\u201d Au XVIIe si\u00e8cle, les abeilles sont des animaux <em>et <\/em>des symboles. Cependant, les apiculteurs ont continu\u00e9 \u00e0 apporter davantage d\u2019informations sur des abeilles. Comment les abeilles changent-elles en tant que symboles quand les abeilles changent en tant qu\u2019animaux ?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","buppl_pre_desc":"","buppl_pre_coauthors":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/presentation\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/presentation"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/presentation"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"presentation-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/presentation-type?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}