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Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750 Objects, Affects, Effects ed. by Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, Christine...
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Fig. 1: A Peruvian feather-work textile from c. 1530–1660 examined under the microscope. Detail of The British Museum, Am2006,Q.12, 81 x...
NEW Seminar Series ‘Affective Artefacts’, University of Manchester
It is with great excitement that we announce the start of a new seminar series on ‘Affective Artefacts’, which is going to discuss the...
The Olfactory Experience of Early Modern Perfumed Gloves
Fig. 1: Students experimenting with sixteenth-century recipes. ©Stefan Hanß Dr Stefan Hanß writes about the meanings of scent on early...
New Book on Early Modern Courtly Matter: Stefan Hanß Conducting Research in Stuttgart
Fig. 1: Stefan Hanß studying a late sixteenth-century cup with a microscope. ©Landesmuseum Württemberg and Stefan Hanß. The Landesmuseum...
Interview with Marta Ajmar
Fig. 1: VARI’s Project meeting, Encounters on the Shop Floor: Embodiment and the Knowledge of the Maker, Photo: Marta Ajmar. Fig. 2: Dr...
Making a Tächli-Tüchli: the reconstruction of an eighteenth-century Zürich veil
In February 2018, project members Susanna Burghartz and Katherine Bond joined forces with the dress and textile specialist Hilary...
Feather-Work, Affects, and Colonial Violence in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
‘Feathers are held in the global imagination as synonymous with Indians’,[1] as researchers have noticed, yet this research project tests...
Interview with Francesca Trivellato
Francesca Trivellato is Barton M. Biggs Professor of History at Yale University, and a specialist in the social and economic history of...
Interview with Pamela H. Smith
Professor Pamela H. Smith with her students of The Making and Knowing Project in the lab at Columbia University. Image © The Making and...
