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.

Publications

  • , Reading Poetry:A Complete Coursebook, 3rd edition.Emblems in Scotland: Motifs and Meanings.
  • , "Paradin Politicized: Some New Sources for Scottish Paintings", Emblematica, 22, pp. 43-67.
  • , "Placardes and Billis and Ticquettis of Defamatioun: Queen Mary, the Mermaid and the Hare", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 78:1, pp. 223–246. The Four Seasons Tapestries at Hatfield House.Emblems for a Queen: the Needlework of Mary Queen of Scots.
  • "Embroidered emblems: Mary Stuart's Bed of State", Emblematica, 15, pp. 5–32.
  • "Alciato and the Earl of Arran", Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, 13, pp. 39-52.Renaissance Decorative Painting in Scotland.
  • "The sources of John Abbott's pattern book", Architectural History, 4, pp. 49–66.Speaking Pictures, English Emblem Books & Renaissance Culture.
  • "Tennis in Emblems", in The Royal Game, pp. 44–67.
  • "Weeping Stags and Melancholy Lovers: The Iconography of As You Like It", Emblematica 1, pp. 13–52.