Contents

I.[Hospitality and its Tokens]1
II.[Ancient Tavern Signs]23
III.[Ecclesiastical Hospitality and its Signs]47
IV.[Secular Hospitality: Knightly and Popular Signs]75
V.[Traveling with Shakespeare and Montaigne]101
VI.[Tavern Signs in Art—especially in Pictures by the Dutch Masters]127
VII.[Artists as Sign-Painters]141
VIII.[The Sign in Poetry]167
IX.[Political Signs]187
X.[Traveling with Goethe and Frederick the Great]217
XI.[The English Sign and its Peculiarities]235
XII.[The Enemies of the Sign and its End]259
[Envoy: And the Moral?]277
[Bibliography]291
[Index]297