List of object studies figures
Section I
Definitions, disciplines, new directions
1 Global things: Europe’s early modern material transformation
2 Cognitive history and material culture
Section II
Contexts and categories
5 The material culture of early modern churches
6 Public buildings in early modern Europe
7 Domestic buildings: Understanding houses and society
8 Materiality and the streetlife of the early modern city
9 Materiality, nature and the body
12 Getting down from the table: Early modern foodways and material culture
Object study 1: The Panyer Alley Boy
Object study 2: Abraham Ortelius his epitome of the theater of the worlde
Object study 3: ‘The Persian Sibyl’ banqueting trencher
Object study 4: A ‘witch-bottle’
Object study 5: Maiolica drug jar
Object study 7: A maiolica plate
Object study 8: ‘Concealed’ leather shoes
Object study 9: Manuscript directions for weaving braids
Object study 10: The Balsambüchse – a portable seventeenth-century medicine cabinet
Object study 11: The Maidstone helmet
Object study 12: A Dutch carved cupboard
Object study 13: An embroidered mirror
Section IV
Material culture in action
15 The material culture of lineage in late Tudor and early Stuart England
16 The malleable moment in English portraiture, c.1540–1640
17 Is this a man I see before me?: Early modern masculinities and the new materialisms
18 In praise of clean linen: Laundering humours on the early modern English stage
19 Early modern religious objects and materialities of belief
20 The material culture of piety in the Italian Renaissance: Re-touching the rosary
21 Early modern spaces and olfactory traces
22 Musical sound and material culture
23 Lasting impressions of the common woodcut
24 Baroque sculpture: Materiality and the question of movement