Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe : Bodies, Gender, and Material Culture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bendall, A. Sarah.

Contributor:

Dyer, Serena.

Series:

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 Series

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 Series ; v.59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artisans--Europe--History.

Artisans.

Handicraft--Europe--History.

Handicraft.

Material culture--Europe--History.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Processes of making in early modern Europe were both tacit and embodied. Whether making pottery, food, or textiles, the processes of manual production rested on an intersensory connection between mind, body, and object. This volume focuses on the body of the maker to ask how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, and reconstructing illuminate early modern assumptions and understandings around manual labour and material life. Answers can be gleaned through both recapturing past skills and knowledge of making and by reconstructing past bodies and bodily experiences using recreative and experimental approaches. In drawing attention to the body, this collection underlines the importance of embodied knowledge and sensory experiences associated with the making practices of historically marginalised groups, such as craftspeople, women, domestic servants, and those who were colonised, to confront biases in the written archive. The history of making is found not only in technological and economic innovations which drove ‘progress’ but also in the hands, minds, and creations of makers themselves.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1. Introduction: The Bodies of Makers

Part I Making and Embodied Knowledge

2. Bodies and Gender Identities in the Making of Silk Fibre in Seventeenth-Century France

3. Bodies and Spices in the Early Modern European, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Worlds

4. Attending to the Tacit; or, Knowledge Trickles Upwards

Part II Remaking and Embodied Experiences

5. ‘Your Companions Will Teach You’: Makers’ Knowledge in Renaissance Cosmetics Recipes

6. Beautiful Experiments : Reading and Reconstructing Early Modern European Cosmetic Recipes

7. Remaking Sixteenth-Century Botanical Woodblocks : Embodied Artisanal Knowledge in Early Modern Woodcutting

8. Generating Bodies: Investigating Foundation Garments and Maternity Through Making

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-003-69466-7

90-485-5737-2

9781003694663

OCLC:

1491308109