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German History, May 13, 2023
The American Historical Review, 2021
This article contributes to the material turn. It shows how an inquiry into the social life of ma... more This article contributes to the material turn. It shows how an inquiry into the social life of materiality, with distinctive methodologies such as reconstruction and object-led-approaches, changes our understanding of the past. It advances our thinking about the emergence and significance of cross-cultural objects in the context of cultural exchange. The article charts the spectacular rise in importance of feathers in dress during the Renaissance, its relation to collecting practices and relevance well into the seventeenth century. It argues that meanings of featherwork in Europe were influenced by encounters with the Americas, whose artistry sixteenth-century Europeans greatly admired. The dyeing of feathers in multiple colors for headwear and its crafting into intricate shapes turned into a major European fashion trend. Crafts and materials linked to embodied sensory perception and emotional responses. This revises accounts which present this age purely as one of conspicuous consu...
This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the... more This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive for engaging with the agentive qualities of matter, showing how affective dimensions in history connect with material history, and exploring the religious and cultural identity dimensions of the use of materials and artefacts. It thus aims to refocus our understanding of the meaning of the material world in this period by centring on the vibrancy of matter itself. To achieve this goal, the authors approach "the material" through four themes - glass, feathers, gold paints, and veils - in relation to specific individuals, material milieus, and interpretative communities. In examining these four types of materialities and object groups, which were attached to different sensory regimes and valorizations, this book charts ...
West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture
History Workshop Journal, 1997
Accidentes Del Alma Las Emociones En La Edad Moderna 2009 Isbn 978 84 96775 55 8 Pags 99 122, 2009
Cultural and Social History, 2011
Historische Anthropologie, 2002
Historische Anthropologie, 2001
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2014
Historische Anthropologie, 1998
History Workshop Journal, 1997
History Workshop Journal, 2002
German History, May 13, 2023
The American Historical Review, 2021
This article contributes to the material turn. It shows how an inquiry into the social life of ma... more This article contributes to the material turn. It shows how an inquiry into the social life of materiality, with distinctive methodologies such as reconstruction and object-led-approaches, changes our understanding of the past. It advances our thinking about the emergence and significance of cross-cultural objects in the context of cultural exchange. The article charts the spectacular rise in importance of feathers in dress during the Renaissance, its relation to collecting practices and relevance well into the seventeenth century. It argues that meanings of featherwork in Europe were influenced by encounters with the Americas, whose artistry sixteenth-century Europeans greatly admired. The dyeing of feathers in multiple colors for headwear and its crafting into intricate shapes turned into a major European fashion trend. Crafts and materials linked to embodied sensory perception and emotional responses. This revises accounts which present this age purely as one of conspicuous consu...
This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the... more This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive for engaging with the agentive qualities of matter, showing how affective dimensions in history connect with material history, and exploring the religious and cultural identity dimensions of the use of materials and artefacts. It thus aims to refocus our understanding of the meaning of the material world in this period by centring on the vibrancy of matter itself. To achieve this goal, the authors approach "the material" through four themes - glass, feathers, gold paints, and veils - in relation to specific individuals, material milieus, and interpretative communities. In examining these four types of materialities and object groups, which were attached to different sensory regimes and valorizations, this book charts ...
West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture
History Workshop Journal, 1997
Accidentes Del Alma Las Emociones En La Edad Moderna 2009 Isbn 978 84 96775 55 8 Pags 99 122, 2009
Cultural and Social History, 2011
Historische Anthropologie, 2002
Historische Anthropologie, 2001
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2014
Historische Anthropologie, 1998
History Workshop Journal, 1997
History Workshop Journal, 2002