A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age
Published on 2. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-350-46335-6 (ISBN)
Description
A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The power and agency of objects significantly evolved over this time. Exploring objects and artefacts within art, technology, and everyday life, the volume challenges our understanding of both life worlds and object worlds in medieval society.
The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.
Julie Lund is Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. Sarah Semple is Professor at Durham University, UK.
Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Objects set.
General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte
The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.
Julie Lund is Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. Sarah Semple is Professor at Durham University, UK.
Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Objects set.
General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
47 b/w
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-46335-6 (9781350463356)
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Persons
Julie Lund is Professor at the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on ontologies, the use of the past in the past, personhood and objecthood, including studies of animated objects, rituals, paganism and Christianity, and the use of the landscape in Viking Age and Early Medieval Scandinavia.
Sarah Semple is Professor in Archaeology at Durham University (UK). Her research and publications focus largely on the landscapes and material culture of early medieval Britain and Northern Europe. She is the author of Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England (2013) and a co-atuhor of Negotiating the North. Meeting Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone (2020).
Sarah Semple is Professor in Archaeology at Durham University (UK). Her research and publications focus largely on the landscapes and material culture of early medieval Britain and Northern Europe. She is the author of Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England (2013) and a co-atuhor of Negotiating the North. Meeting Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone (2020).
Content
VOLUME 2: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF OBJECTS IN THE MEDIEVAL AGE
Edited by Julie Lund, University of Oslo, Norway, and Sarah Semple, University of Durham, UK
1. Objecthood, Robin Fleming and Katherine L. French
2. Technology, Steve Ashby
3. Economic Objects, Dries Tys and Pieterjan Deckers
4. Everyday Objects: Making and Shaping Medieval Worlds, Toby F. Martin
5. Art, Hans Henrik Lohfert Jorgensen
6. Architecture, Sam Turner
7. Bodily Objects, Bonnie Effros
8. Object Worlds, Ben Jervis and Sarah Semple
Edited by Julie Lund, University of Oslo, Norway, and Sarah Semple, University of Durham, UK
1. Objecthood, Robin Fleming and Katherine L. French
2. Technology, Steve Ashby
3. Economic Objects, Dries Tys and Pieterjan Deckers
4. Everyday Objects: Making and Shaping Medieval Worlds, Toby F. Martin
5. Art, Hans Henrik Lohfert Jorgensen
6. Architecture, Sam Turner
7. Bodily Objects, Bonnie Effros
8. Object Worlds, Ben Jervis and Sarah Semple