Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750: Objects, Affects, Effects
Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750: Objects, Affects, Effects
edited by Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, Christine Göttler and Ulinka Rublack
Amsterdam University Press, 2021 eISBN: 978-90-485-5405-8
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 how each underwent significant changes during this period.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Susanna Burghartz is professor of Renaissance and Early Modern History at the University of Basel. She has published on Reformation, Confessionalization and Gender history, as well as early European globalization and material culture. Her current research investigates advertising journals as the new marketplaces for the emerging consumer society of the eighteenth century, and includes a micro-global history of the Leisler family and Basel's silk ribbon industry.
Lucas Burkart has been Professor of History at the University of Basel since 2012. His research interests encompass the cultural history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the history of material culture, and the history of historiography. Currently, he is also overseeing the completion of the critical edition of the critical edition of the works by Jacob Burckhardt.
Christine Göttler is Professor emerita of Art History at the University of Bern and specializes in the art of early modern Europe, with a focus on the Netherlands. She has published widely on collecting practices, historical aspects of artists' materials, and the imagery of solitude. Her current projects explore Peter Paul Rubens's engagement with Antwerp's global world and the relationship between landscape and nature.
Ulinka Rublack is Professor of Early Modern History at Cambridge University and Fellow of St John´s College. In addition to research on Reformation and on gender history, Rublack specializes in the history of dress. Her books on this subject include Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe, Oxford University Press: 2010.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction: Materializing Identities: The Affective Values of Matter in Early Modern Europe (Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, Christine Göttler, Ulinka Rublack)
Part 1. Glass
1. Negotiating the Pleasure of Glass: Production, Consumption, and Affective Regimes in Renaissance Venice (Lucas Burkart)
2. Shaping Identity through Glass in Renaissance Venice (Rachele Scuro)
Part 2. Feathers
3. Making Featherwork in Early Modern Europe (Stefan Hanß)
4. Performing America: Featherwork and Affective Politics (Ulinka Rublack)
Part 3. Gold Paint
5. Yellow, Vermilion, and Gold: Colour in Karel van Mander's Schilder-Boeck (Christine Göttler
6. Shimmering Virtue: Joris Hoefnagel and the Uses of Shell Gold in the Early Modern Period (Michèle Seehafer)
Part 4. Veils
7. "Fashioned with Marvellous Skill": Veils and the Costume Books of Sixteenth-Century Europe (Katherine Bond)
8. Moral Materials: Veiling in Early Modern Protestant Cities. The Cases of Basel and Zurich (Susanna Burghartz)
Index