Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700
Published on 1. January 2023
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-80085-634-9 (ISBN)
Description
During the period 1000-1700 major transformations took place in material culture. Quite simply, more objects were manufactured and used than ever before and many objects travelled across geographic, political, religious, linguistic, class and cultural boundaries. By starting with a focus on past objects, this volume brings together essays from art historians, historians, archaeologists, literary scholars and museum curators to reveal the different disciplinary approaches and methods taken to the study of objects and what this can reveal about transformations in material culture 1000-1700.
Contributors: Katherine A. Wilson, Leah R. Clark, Alison M. Leonard, Steven P. Ashby, Michael Lewis, Robert Maniura, Sarah Hinds, Christina Antenhofer, Alexandra van Dongen, Bettina Bildhauer, Julie De Groot, Jennifer Hillman, Ruth Whelan, Christopher Donaldson, Thomas Pickles.
Contributors: Katherine A. Wilson, Leah R. Clark, Alison M. Leonard, Steven P. Ashby, Michael Lewis, Robert Maniura, Sarah Hinds, Christina Antenhofer, Alexandra van Dongen, Bettina Bildhauer, Julie De Groot, Jennifer Hillman, Ruth Whelan, Christopher Donaldson, Thomas Pickles.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white; 1 Maps; 4 Tables, black and white; 32 Halftones, color; 45 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80085-634-9 (9781800856349)
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Persons
Katherine A. Wilson is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Chester. She is the Principal Investigator of an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Network Grant and Follow on Funding for Impact and Engagement on the subject of 'The Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700', partnered with the University of Oxford and the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. Her monograph The Power of Textiles: Tapestries of the Burgundian Dominions (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018) reveals textiles as objects that contributed to the projection of urban social status and the cultural construction of political authority by medieval rulers. Leah R. Clark is Director of Studies of Art History for the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford. Her research explores the roles objects play in creating networks in the fifteenth century through their exchange, collection, and replication. She is author of Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court: Objects and Exchanges (Cambridge University Press, 2018), co-editor (with Nancy Um) of a special issue 'The Art of Embassy: Objects and Images of Early Modern Diplomacy' of the Journal of Early Modern History, (2016) and co-editor (with Kathleen Christian) of a textbook on the 'global Renaissance', European Art and the Wider World 1350-1550 (Manchester University Press, 2017).
Content
List of illustrations
Introduction: The Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700 Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark
Part I: Thresholds and Boundaries
Introduction Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark
1 A Prehistory of Movement: Tracking Object Mobility Around the Viking-Age North Sea Alison M. Leonard and Steven P. Ashby
2 Characterising Transformation in Religious Material Culture AD 1000-1700: Through the Study of Archaeological Small Finds Discovered by the Public in England and Wales Michael Lewis
3 Crossing Boundaries with Pilgrim Badges Robert Maniura
4 Crossing Thresholds and Creating Boundaries: A Cultural Itinerary of Chests in Late Medieval England Sarah Hinds
5 The Mobility of Objects Across Time and Space: Chests in Renaissance Italian and German Bridal Trousseaux (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) Christina Antenhofer
Part II: Framing and Translation
Introduction Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark
6 Jan van Eyck's Syrian Apothecary Jar: The Earliest Known Depiction of Middle Eastern Ceramics in Medieval European Art Alexandra van Dongen
7 Wandering Things and the Human/Object Boundary: A Literary Approach Bettina Bildhauer
8 Uncovering Daily Life in the Archive? Framing Domestic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Bruges Inventories Julie De Groot
9 Objects in Time: The Affective Power of a Prie-Dieu in Seventeenth-Century France Jennifer Hillman
10 Crossing Borders: The Hidden Life of a Manuscript Letter Ruth Whelan
11 The Black-lead of Borrowdale, 1500-1750: An Object History of a Mutable Material Christopher Donaldson
12 Why do Some Things Become More Mobile, 1000-1700? Thomas Pickles
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: The Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700 Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark
Part I: Thresholds and Boundaries
Introduction Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark
1 A Prehistory of Movement: Tracking Object Mobility Around the Viking-Age North Sea Alison M. Leonard and Steven P. Ashby
2 Characterising Transformation in Religious Material Culture AD 1000-1700: Through the Study of Archaeological Small Finds Discovered by the Public in England and Wales Michael Lewis
3 Crossing Boundaries with Pilgrim Badges Robert Maniura
4 Crossing Thresholds and Creating Boundaries: A Cultural Itinerary of Chests in Late Medieval England Sarah Hinds
5 The Mobility of Objects Across Time and Space: Chests in Renaissance Italian and German Bridal Trousseaux (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) Christina Antenhofer
Part II: Framing and Translation
Introduction Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark
6 Jan van Eyck's Syrian Apothecary Jar: The Earliest Known Depiction of Middle Eastern Ceramics in Medieval European Art Alexandra van Dongen
7 Wandering Things and the Human/Object Boundary: A Literary Approach Bettina Bildhauer
8 Uncovering Daily Life in the Archive? Framing Domestic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Bruges Inventories Julie De Groot
9 Objects in Time: The Affective Power of a Prie-Dieu in Seventeenth-Century France Jennifer Hillman
10 Crossing Borders: The Hidden Life of a Manuscript Letter Ruth Whelan
11 The Black-lead of Borrowdale, 1500-1750: An Object History of a Mutable Material Christopher Donaldson
12 Why do Some Things Become More Mobile, 1000-1700? Thomas Pickles
Bibliography
Index