Call For Papers
International Medieval Congress, Leeds
11-14 July 2011
Melanie Hackney (Louisiana State University), Organizer
Michele Luigi Vescovi (Università di Parma), Organizer
Images in Action: Processions, Feast Days, and Other Ecclesiastical
Celebrations
Throughout the Middle Ages, images - from jeweled crosses to adorned
statuary, painted panels to celebrated reliquaries - performed central
roles in feast days, processions, and other ecclesiastical celebrations.
Such rituals frequently threaded through town streets, entwining
cathedral, market squares, churches, and government offices and
encouraging the audience's involvement through carefully choreographed
spectacles that often included images as a point of focus. Although
many of these objects have received scholarly attention in terms of
technical construction, iconographic tradition, or artistic authorship,
frequently, lacunae remain regarding their processional display and
function. This session aims to gather scholars investigating the visual
component of such celebrations in order to advance an overlooked area of
study.
Accordingly, the Student Committee of the International Center for
Medieval Art seeks papers that consider "images in action" for a
sponsored session at the 2011 International Medieval Congress in Leeds.
Potential avenues for inquiry include, but are not limited to: how did
the images interact with the audiences? How did the audiences interact
with the images? In what ways were the objects activated by their
inclusion in such occasions? How did the images engage with or impact
the physical space encompassed by the routes? What were the religious,
political, economic, etc. implications of these interactions?
As a committee that addresses the concerns of all members with student
status (undergraduates, graduates, interns, etc.) we welcome
submissions from students and established scholars alike. To submit,
please send an e-mail including a brief vitae and an abstract of no more
than 500 words to Melanie Hackney ([log in to unmask]) by 31 July
2010.
** Following the composition of the session, the Student Committee will
propose it to the International Center of Medieval Art for sponsorship
consideration. If the proposal is accepted, participants will be
eligible for partial Kress Foundation funding.
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Everyday Objects : Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its
Meanings
Edited by Tara Hamling, University of Birmingham, UK and Catherine
Richardson, University of Kent, UK
Scholars will welcome this volume which provides an overview of various
methodological strands currently developing across a range of
disciplines. Taking a refreshingly broad approach, the collection
explores 'everyday objects' as a way of questioning the relationship
between material culture and historical themes. In so doing it
highlights the way in which the study of objects can provide unexpected
access to the 'lived experience' of individuals who may otherwise left
little impact in the written records.
Contents:
Introduction, Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson
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.
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.
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.
SOUND AND SENSORY EXPERIENCES
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 .
Thompson.
MATERIAL RELIGION
2 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 (Lines), Kate Giles
ATTITUDES TOWARDS OBJECTS
'A very fit hat …’, 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.
Includes 8 colour and 50 b&w illustrations
Aldershot: Ashgate, September 2010
c. 376 pages
Hardback: 978•0•7546•6637•0 c. £60.00
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Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy
Edited by Sara F. Matthews-Grieco, Syracuse University in Florence, Italy
Visual Culture in Early Modernity
Concentrating largely on the 'middle ranks' of Renaissance society this
book addresses lacunae in current scholarship on the social and visual
dimensions of sexuality in early modern Italy. Looking at neglected
archival resources, amateur pornography and material artefacts often
dismissed by historians of art and society, contributors here expose the
existence of a pervasive erotic culture in which sexually explicit
images, gestures and objects were considered essential to a variety of
rituals and social occasions.
Contents
Introduction, Guido Ruggiero
PART I VISUAL TESTIMONY AND VERBAL GAMES
Satyrs and sausages: erotic strategies and the print market in
cinquecento Italy, Sara F. Matthews-Grieco
The erotic fantasies of a model clerk: amateur pornography at the
beginning of the cinquecento, Guido A. Guerzoni
From roosters to cocks: Italian Renaissance fowl and sexuality, Allen
J. Grieco
The spirit is ready but the flesh is tired: erotic objects and marriage
in early modern Italy, Marta Ajmar-Wollheim
PART II RITUAL EROTICISM AND SOCIABILITY
Public display of affection: the making of marriage in the Venetian
courts before the Council of Trent (1420-1545), Cecilia Cristellon
Mail humor and male sociability: sexual innuendo in the epistolary
domain of Francesco II Gonzaga, Molly Bourne
Unlocking the gates of chastity: music and the erotic in the domestic
sphere in 15th- and 16th-century Italy, Flora Dennis
Coutesan culture: manhood, honour and sociability, Tessa Storey
Index.
Includes 28 colour and 68 b&w illustrations
Aldershot: Ashgate, May 2010
302 pages
Hardback: 978-0•7546-6214-3, c. £60.00
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Handbook of World Exchange Rates, 1590-1914
Markus A. Denzel, University of Leipzig, Germany
As a world economy emerged from the 16th-17th centuries onwards, a
global cashless payment system arose. The primary aim of this book is to
provide a compact account of the exchange rates in all these financial
markets, from the late 16th century up to the First World War. This
makes possible an instant conversion between the major world currencies
at nearly any date within that period. The present handbook therefore
serves as an invaluable resource for those concerned with all aspects of
commercial and financial history.
Contents:
Introduction
Sources and bibliography
Europe:
England/Great Britain (1590-1914)
Netherlands (1593-1914)
Italy (1590-1914)
Germany (1657-1914)
Hapsburg monarchy (1754-1914)
France (1760-1914)
Spain (1820-1914)
Switzerland (1842-1914)
Denmark (1696-1914)
Sweden (1700-1914)
Russian Empire (1695-1914)
Poland (1696-1812)
Ottoman Empire (1760-1914)
America:
The British colonies in North America and the United States of America
(1660-1914)
Canada (1757-1914)
Jamaica (1675-1914)
Brazil (1808-1914)
Argentina (1824-1914)
Chile (1827- 1914)
Uruguay (1871-1914)
Mexico (1886-1914)
Asia
British India (1818-1914)
China (1764-1914)
Japan (1861-1914)
Straits Settlements (1834-1914)
Netherlands India (1818-1914)
Mauritius (1825-1914)
Indochinese Union (1888-1914)
Persia (1809-1914)
Australia/Oceania
Australia (1822-1914)
New Zealand (1841-1914)
Africa
Egypt (1869-1914)
Cape Colony/ South African Union (1811-1914)
Index.
Aldershot: Ashgate, October 2010
c. 774 pages
Hardback: 978-0-7546-0356-6, c. £85.00
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