Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700

Katherine A. Wilson is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Chester. She is the Principal Investigator of an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Network Grant and Follow on Funding for Impact and Engagement on the subject of ‘The Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700’, partnered with the University of Oxford and the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. Her monograph The Power of Textiles: Tapestries of the Burgundian Dominions (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018) reveals textiles as objects that contributed to the projection of urban social status and the cultural construction of political authority by medieval rulers. Leah R. Clark is Director of Studies of Art History for the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford. Her research explores the roles objects play in creating networks in the fifteenth century through their exchange, collection, and replication. She is author of Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court: Objects and Exchanges (Cambridge University Press, 2018), co-editor (with Nancy Um) of a special issue 'The Art of Embassy: Objects and Images of Early Modern Diplomacy' of the Journal of Early Modern History, (2016) and co-editor (with Kathleen Christian) of a textbook on the ‘global Renaissance’, European Art and the Wider World 1350-1550 (Manchester University Press, 2017).

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Introduction: The Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700 Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark

Part I: Thresholds and Boundaries

Introduction Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark

1 A Prehistory of Movement: Tracking Object Mobility Around the Viking-Age North Sea Alison M. Leonard and Steven P. Ashby

2 Characterising Transformation in Religious Material Culture AD 1000-1700: Through the Study of Archaeological Small Finds Discovered by the Public in England and Wales Michael Lewis

3 Crossing Boundaries with Pilgrim Badges Robert Maniura

4 Crossing Thresholds and Creating Boundaries: A Cultural Itinerary of Chests in Late Medieval England Sarah Hinds

5 The Mobility of Objects Across Time and Space: Chests in Renaissance Italian and German Bridal Trousseaux (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) Christina Antenhofer

Part II: Framing and Translation

Introduction Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark

6 Jan van Eyck’s Syrian Apothecary Jar: The Earliest Known Depiction of Middle Eastern Ceramics in Medieval European Art Alexandra van Dongen

7 Wandering Things and the Human/Object Boundary: A Literary Approach Bettina Bildhauer

8 Uncovering Daily Life in the Archive? Framing Domestic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Bruges Inventories Julie De Groot

9 Objects in Time: The Affective Power of a Prie-Dieu in Seventeenth-Century France Jennifer Hillman

10 Crossing Borders: The Hidden Life of a Manuscript Letter Ruth Whelan

11 The Black-lead of Borrowdale, 1500-1750: An Object History of a Mutable Material Christopher Donaldson

12 Why do Some Things Become More Mobile, 1000-1700? Thomas Pickles

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