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."Contributors", Victorian Popular Fictions, 4:1 (Spring 2022).History of the Society of Emblem Studies
Publications (with Tom Furniss), Reading Poetry:A Complete Coursebook, 3rd edition (Routledge, 2022). Emblems in Scotland: Motifs and Meanings (Brill, Leiden, 2018).Crawford Gribben, "Review", Journal of the Northern Renaissance, May 2020 (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. 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).William E. Engel, "Book Reviews", The Sixteenth Century Journal, 25:4 (Winter 1994), pp. 1110–1112. "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.
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External links Memorialising Mary: The Monument to Mary Queen of Scots. Society for Emblem Studies. October 2020