Table of Contents
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SECTION 1: DEFINITIONS, DISCIPLINES, NEW DIRECTIONS
Introduction
Catherine Richardson, Tara Hamling and David Gaimster
Chapter 1: Global Things: Europe’s Early Modern Material Transformation
Giorgio Riello
Chapter 2: Cognitive History and Material Culture
John Sutton and Nicholas Keene
SECTION 2: CONTEXTS AND CATEGORIES
Chapter 3: Maps and Material Culture
Bernhard Klein
Chapter 4: The Royal Court
Glenn Richardson
Chapter 5: The Material Culture of Early Modern Churches
Andrew Spicer
Chapter 6: Public Buildings in Early Modern Europe
Kate Giles
Chapter 7: Domestic Buildings: Understanding Houses and Society
Chris King
Chapter 8: Materiality and the Streetlife of the Early Modern City
Andrew Gordon
Chapter 9: Materiality, Nature and the Body
Erin Sullivan and Andrew Wear
Chapter 10: Mortuary Culture
Harold Mytum
Chapter 11: Clothing
Maria Hayward
Chapter 12: Getting Down from the Table: Early Modern Foodways and Material Culture
Sara Pennell
Chapter 13: Arms and Armour
David Grummitt
Chapter 14: Material Texts
Frances Maguire and Helen Smith
SECTION 3: OBJECT STUDIES
Object Study 1: The Panyer Alley Boy
Andrew Gordon
Object Study 2: Abraham Ortelius, his epitome of the theatre of the worlde
Delia Garratt
Object Study 3: ‘The Persian Sibyl’ Banqueting Trencher
Victoria Jackson
Object Study 4: A ‘Witch-bottle’
Ann-Sophie Thwaite
Object Study 5: A Drug Jar
Hannah Lee
Object Study 6: A Shoehorn
Sophie Cope
Object Study 7: A Maiolica plate
Hollie Chung
Object study 8: ‘Concealed’ leather shoes
Peter Hewitt
Object Study 9: Manuscript Directions for Weaving Braids
Jan Sibthorpe
Object Study 10: The Balsambüchse – a Portable Seventeenth-Century Medicine Cabinet
Luisa Coscarelli
Object Study 11: The Maidstone Helmet
Malcolm Mercer
Object Study 12: A Dutch carved cupboard
Tara Hamling
Object Study 13: An Embroidered Mirror
Claire Canavan
SECTION 4: MATERIAL CULTURE IN ACTION
Chapter 15: The Material Culture of Lineage in late-Tudor and early-Stuart England
Richard Cust
Chapter 16: The Malleable Moment in English Portraiture, c. 1540-1640
Robert Tittler
Chapter 17: Is This a Man I See Before Me?: Early Modern Masculinities and the New Materialisms
Amanda Bailey
Chapter 18: In Praise of Clean Linen: Laundering Humours on the Early Modern English Stage
Natasha Korda and Eleanor Lowe
Chapter 19: Early Modern Religious Objects or Objects of Belief?
Suzanna Ivanič
Chapter 20: The Material Culture of Piety in the Italian Renaissance: Re-touching the Rosary
Irene Galandra Cooper and Mary Laven
Chapter 21: Early Modern Spaces and Olfactory Traces
David Karmon and Christy Anderson
Chapter 22: Musical Sound and Material Culture
Flora Dennis
Chapter 23: Lasting Impressions of the Common Woodcut
Patricia Fumerton and Megan Palmer-Browne, with William Palmer
Chapter 24: Baroque Sculpture: Materiality and the Question of Movement
Nigel Llewellyn
Chapter 25: Rights of Privacy in Early Modern English Households
Lena Cowen Orlin
Chapter 26: Antwerp and the ‘Material Renaissance’: Exploring the social and economic significance of crystal glass and majolica in the sixteenth century
Inneke Baatsen, Bruno Blondé and Carolien De Staelen
Chapter 27: I Say ‘Shard’, You Say ‘Sherd’: contrasting and complimentary approaches to a piece of early modern ‘venice glass’
Angela McShane and Nigel Jeffries