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Global gold : aesthetics, material desires, economies in the late medieval and early modern world / edited by Thomas B.F. Cummins.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- I Tatti research series ; 7.
- I Tatti research series ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gold--History.
- Gold.
- Gold--Economic aspects.
- Gold in art--History.
- Gold in art.
- Goldwork--History.
- Goldwork.
- Globalization--History.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Florence, Italy : I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ; Rome, Italy : Officina libraria, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Gold as a material and gold as a value becomes a truly universal equivalent in the early modern world as global economies begin to emerge after 1492. The essays in Global Gold present both the aesthetic and economic conditions that immediately precede the emergence of this global commerce as well as the immediate and various consequences of those interactions. Through interdisciplinary essays by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art history, the differences and commonalities of gold's monetary, economic, and aesthetic roles are explored within the crucible of a unique historical period of transition, conquest, and the exploitation of natural and human resources."--Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. The making of gold and aesthetics.
- On gold and gold-backs in early Italian art / Anne Dunlop
- The gold experience in art and in Italian artisan tradition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Cecilia Frosinini
- The Temple of the Golden Pavilion / Yukio Lippit
- Pt. 2. The lure of gold: holy and unholy desires.
- Potable gold: from cordial remedy to Panacea (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) / Chiara Crisciani
- El Dorado: God's accursed gift to America / Thomas B.F. Cummins
- Blood money: Asante gold, art, power and identity in historic Ghana / Suzanne Preston Blier
- Pt. 3. The economies of gold.
- The Genoese merchant network and gold (ca. 1450-1530) / Carlo Taviani
- Gold, Islam, and the Spanish "Reconquista" / Abigail Krasner Balbale
- In the shadow of silver: the gold of New Granada under the Habsburgs / Kris Lane.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674296176
- 0674296176
- 9788833672229
- 8833672220
- OCLC:
- 1425246797
- Publisher Number:
- 90102506485
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