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Everyday objects : medieval and early modern material culture and its meanings

Contributor(s): Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)ISBN:
  • 9780754666370
  • 9781315255798
  • 1315255790
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GN406
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Contents:
Evidence and Interpretation: 'For a crack or flaw despis'd' : thinking about ceramic durability and the 'everyday' in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England / Sara Pennell -- The material culture of walking : spaces of methodologies in the long eighteenth century / Giorgio Riello -- In the sight of an old pair of shoes / Stephen Kelly -- Lexicological confusion and medieval clothing culture : redressing medieval dress with the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain project / Mark Chambers and Louise Sylvester -- Pins and aglets / Jenny Tiramani -- Froes, rebatoes and other 'outlandish commodities : weaving alien women's work into the fabric of early modern material culture / Natasha Korda -- A shadow of a former self : analysis of an early seventeenth-century boy's doublet from Abingdon / Maria Hayward -- Ordinary pots : the inventory of Francesco di Luca, Orciolaio, and Cipriano Piccolpassos Three books of the art of the potter / Stephen Wharton -- Archaeology of an age of print? : everyday objects in an age of transition / David Gaimster --
Summary: This book is about the objects people owned and how they used them. Twenty-three specially written essays investigate the type of things that might have been considered 'everyday objects' in the medieval and early modern periods, and how they help us to understand the daily lives of those individuals for whom few other types of evidence survive - for instance people of lower status and women of all status groups. Everyday Objects presents new research by specialists from a range of disciplines to assess what the study of material culture can contribute to our understanding of medieval and early modern societies. Extending and developing key debates in the study of the everyday, the chapters provide analysis of such things as ceramics, illustrated manuscripts, pins, handbells, carved chimneypieces, clothing, drinking vessels, bagpipes, paintings, shoes, religious icons and the built fabric of domestic houses and guild halls.
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Originally published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evidence and Interpretation: 'For a crack or flaw despis'd' : thinking about ceramic durability and the 'everyday' in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England / Sara Pennell -- The material culture of walking : spaces of methodologies in the long eighteenth century / Giorgio Riello -- In the sight of an old pair of shoes / Stephen Kelly -- Lexicological confusion and medieval clothing culture : redressing medieval dress with the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain project / Mark Chambers and Louise Sylvester -- Pins and aglets / Jenny Tiramani -- Froes, rebatoes and other 'outlandish commodities : weaving alien women's work into the fabric of early modern material culture / Natasha Korda -- A shadow of a former self : analysis of an early seventeenth-century boy's doublet from Abingdon / Maria Hayward -- Ordinary pots : the inventory of Francesco di Luca, Orciolaio, and Cipriano Piccolpassos Three books of the art of the potter / Stephen Wharton -- Archaeology of an age of print? : everyday objects in an age of transition / David Gaimster --

The conservation of garments concealed within buildings as material culture in action / Dinah Eastop -- The enchantment of the familiar face : portraits as domestic objects in Elizabethan and Jacobean England / Tarnya Cooper -- Faces and spaces : displaying the civic portrait in early modern England / Robert Tittler -- Resurrecting forgotton sound : fans and handbells in early modern Italy / Flora Dennis -- 'A pottell of ayle on whyt Sonday' : everyday objects and the musical culture of the post-Reformation English parish church / Jonathan Willis -- Bagpipes and patterns of conformity in late medieval England / John J. Thompson -- Two texts and an image make an object : a devotional sheet from pre-Reformation England / R.N. Swanson -- Contesting the everyday : the cultural biography of a subversive playing card / Richard L. Williams -- Remembering the dead at dinner-time / Sheila Sweetinburgh -- 'A table of alabaster with the story of the doom' : the religious objects and spaces of the guild of Our Blessed Virgin, Boston (Lincs) / Kate Giles -- 'A very fit hat' : personal objects and early modern affection / Catherine Richardson -- Empty vessels / Lena Cowen Orlin -- Objectification, identity and the late medieval codex / Ryan Perry -- Reconciling image and object : religious imagery in Protestant interior decoration / Tara Hamling.

This book is about the objects people owned and how they used them. Twenty-three specially written essays investigate the type of things that might have been considered 'everyday objects' in the medieval and early modern periods, and how they help us to understand the daily lives of those individuals for whom few other types of evidence survive - for instance people of lower status and women of all status groups. Everyday Objects presents new research by specialists from a range of disciplines to assess what the study of material culture can contribute to our understanding of medieval and early modern societies. Extending and developing key debates in the study of the everyday, the chapters provide analysis of such things as ceramics, illustrated manuscripts, pins, handbells, carved chimneypieces, clothing, drinking vessels, bagpipes, paintings, shoes, religious icons and the built fabric of domestic houses and guild halls.

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