Everyday Political Objects : From the Middle Ages to the Contemporary World (Paperback)

1. Introduction: Useful Objects Christopher Fletcher 2. Rings of Power: The Interpretation of Early Medieval Objects of Adornment Julie Renou 3. The Practical and Symbolic Uses of the Medieval Horn: From Power Object to Common Instrument Luc Bourgeois 4. A History of Domestic Disorder: The French Royal Household in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Gil Bartholeyns 5. The Prince and His Coffer: The Material Functions and Symbolic Power of an Everyday Political Object at the End of the Middle Ages Jean-Baptiste Santamaria 6. Teapots, Fans and Snuffboxes: The Portable Politics of Gender and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding 7. Wooden Shoes and Wellington Boots: The Politics of Footwear in Georgian Britain. Matthew McCormack 8. The Fan during the French Revolution: From the Elite to the People Mathilde Semal 9. Resisting with Objects? Seditious Political Objects and Their ‘Agency’ in Restoration France (1814-1830) Emmanuel Fureix 10. A Sonorous Politics of Everyday Objects: Coal Workers’ Charivaris during the Anzin Strike of 1884 Adrien Quievre 11. Political Fashion: Elegance as Subversion in the Congos of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Manuel Charpy 12. ‘Citizen Browning’: The Banality of a Revolutionary Object, c. 1905-c. 1912 Eric Fournier 13. Bringing Audible Propaganda into the Everyday: The Politicization of the Phonograph Record from its Origins to the SERP, 1888-2000 Jonathan Thomas 14. Image, Voice and Voivodes: Communist Diafilm in Romania, 1950-1989 Alexandra Ilina 15. The Trajectory of a Spear: The Materiality of an Everyday Political Object in North-Western Burkina Laurence Douny