The Routledge handbook of material culture in early modern Europe / edited by Catherine Richardson, Tara Hamling and David Gaimster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Richardson, Catherine (Catherine Teresa), editor.

Hamling, Tara, editor.

Gaimster, David R. M., editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge history handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Europe--History.

Material culture.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 485 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Material culture in early modern Europe

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established field of multi-disciplinary research. The volume provides a rounded, accessible collection of work on the nature and significance of materiality in early modern Europe - a term that embraces a vast range of objects as well as addressing a wide variety of human interactions with their physical environments. This stimulating view of materiality is distinctive in asking questions about the whole material world as a context for lived experience, and the book considers material interactions at all social levels. There are 27 chapters by leading experts as well as 13 feature object studies to highlight specific items that have survived from this period (defined broadly as c.1500-c.1800). These contributions explore the things people acquired, owned, treasured, displayed and discarded, the spaces in which people used and thought about things, the social relationships which cluster around goods - between producers, vendors and consumers of various kinds - and the way knowledge travels around those circuits of connection. The content also engages with wider issues such as the relationship between public and private life, the changing connections between the sacred and the profane, or the effects of gender and social status upon lived experience. Constructed as an accessible, wide-ranging guide to research practice, the book describes and represents the methods which have been developed within various disciplines for analysing pre-modern material culture. It comprises four sections which open up the approaches of various disciplines to non-specialists: 'Definitions, disciplines, new directions', 'Contexts and categories', 'Object studies' and 'Material culture in action'. This volume addresses the need for sustained, coherent comment on the state, breadth and potential of this lively new field, including the work of historians, art historians, museum curators, archaeologists, social scientists and literary scholars. It consolidates and communicates recent developments and considers how we might take forward a multi-disciplinary research agenda for the study of material culture in periods before the mass production of goods. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section I Definitions, disciplines, new directions 1

Introduction / Catherine Richardson Richardson, Catherine, Tara Hamling Hamling, Tara, David Gaimster Gaimster, David 3

1 Global things: Europe's early modern material transformation / Giorgio Riello Riello, Giorgio 29

2 Cognitive history and material culture / John Sutton Sutton, John, Nicholas Keene Keene, Nicholas 46

Section II Contexts and categories 59

3 Maps and material culture / Bernhard Klein Klein, Bernhard 61

4 The royal court / Glenn Richardson Richardson, Glenn 71

5 The material culture of early modern churches / Andrew Spicer Spicer, Andrew 82

6 Public buildings in early modern Europe / Kate Giles Giles, Kate 98

7 Domestic buildings: Understanding houses and society / Chris King King, Chris 115

8 Materiality and the streetlife of the early modern city / Andrew Gordon Gordon, Andrew 130

9 Materiality, nature and the body / Erin Sullivan Sullivan, Erin, Andrew Wear Wear, Andrew 141

10 Mortuary culture / Harold Mytum Mytum, Harold 158

11 Clothing / Maria Hayward Hayward, Maria 172

12 Getting down from the table: Early modern foodways and material culture / Sara Pennell Pennell, Sara 185

13 Arms and armour / David Grummitt Grummitt, David 196

14 Material texts / Frances Maguire Maguire, Frances, Helen Smith Smith, Helen 206

Section III Object studies 217

Object study 1 The Panyer Alley Boy / Andrew Gordon Gordon, Andrew 218

Object study 2 Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theater of the worlde / Delia Garratt Garratt, Delia 220

Object study 3 'The Persian Sibyl' banqueting trencher / Victoria Jackson Jackson, Victoria 222

Object study 4 A 'witch-bottle' / Ann-Sophie Thwaite Thwaite, Ann-Sophie 224

Object study 5 Maiolica drug jar / Hannah Lee Lee, Hannah 226

Object study 6 A shoehorn / Sophie Cope Cope, Sophie 228

Object study 7 A maiolica plate / Hollie Chung Chung, Hollie 230

Object study 8 'Concealed' leather shoes / Peter Hewitt Hewitt, Peter 232

Object study 9 Manuscript directions for weaving braids / Jan Sibthorpe Sibthorpe, Jan 234

Object study 10 The Balsambüchse - a portable seventeenth-century medicine cabinet / Luisa Coscarelli Coscarelli, Luisa 236

Object study 11 The Maidstone helmet / Malcolm Mercer Mercer, Malcolm 238

Object study 12 A Dutch carved cupboard / Tara Hamling Hamling, Tara 240

Object study 13 An embroidered mirror / Claire Canavan Canavan, Claire 242

Section IV Material culture in action 245

15 The material culture of lineage in late Tudor and early Stuart England / Richard Cust Cust, Richard 247

16 The malleable moment in English portraiture, c. 1540-1640 / Robert Tittler Tittler, Robert 275

17 Is this a man I see before me?: Early modern masculinities and the new materialisms / Amanda Bailey Bailey, Amanda 293

18 In praise of clean linen: Laundering humours on the early modern English stage / Natasha Korda Korda, Natasha, Eleanor Lowe Lowe, Eleanor 306

19 Early modern religions objects and materialities of belief / Suzanna Ivanic Ivanic, Suzanna 322

20 The material culture of piety in the Italian Renaissance: Re-touching the rosary / Irene Galandra Cooper Cooper, Irene Galandra, Mary Laven Laven, Mary 338

21 Early modern spaces and olfactory traces / David Karmon Karmon, David, Christy Anderson Anderson, Christy 354

22 Musical sound and material culture / Flora Dennis Dennis, Flora 371

23 Lasting impressions of the common woodcut / Patricia Fumerton Fumerton, Patricia, Megan E. Palmer Palmer, Megan E. 383

24 Baroque sculpture: Materiality and the question of movement / Nigel Llewellyn Llewellyn, Nigel 401

25 Rights of privacy in early modern English households / Lena Cowen Orlin Orlin, Lena Cowen 423

26 Antwerp and the 'material Renaissance': Exploring the social and economic significance of crystal glass and majolica in the sixteenth century / Inneke Baatsen Baatsen, Inneke, Bruno Blondé Blondé, Bruno, Carolien De Staelen Staelen, Carolien De 436

27 I say 'shard', you say 'sherd': Contrasting and complementary approaches to a piece of early modern 'Venice glass' / Angela Mcshane Mcshane, Angela, Nigel Jeffries Jeffries, Nigel 452.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1409462692

9781409462699

OCLC:

961249752