Everyday Objects

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.

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  Open Access•Catherine Richardson•Literature Compass•2010

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