Everyday Objects : Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its Meanings (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction, Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson; Part I Evidence and Interpretation: 'For a crack or flaw despis'd': thinking about ceramic durability and the 'everyday' in late 17th- and early 18th-century England, Sara Pennell; The material culture of walking: spaces of methodologies in the long 18th 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. Part II Skills and Manufacture: Pins and aglets, Jenny Tiramani; Froes, rebatoes and other 'outlandish comodityes': 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 17th-century boy's doublet from Abingdon, Maria Hayward; Ordinary pots: the inventory of Francesco di Luca, Orciolaio, and Cipriano Piccolpasso's Three Books of the Art of the Potter, Steve Wharton. Part III Objects and Spaces: 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 Eastrop; 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. Part IV Sound and Sensory Experience: Resurrecting forgotten sound: fans and handbells in early modern Italy, Flora Dennis; 'A potell 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. Part V Material Religion: 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. Part VI Attitudes towards Objects: '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; Index.