Second Workshop of the Materialized Identities Group, Bern and Zurich, 16th–17th March 2017
At the 16th and 17th March 2017, the research group Materialized Identities ran its second of a number of workshops on the topic of how...
Augsburg Featherworkers in the Past and Present: A Historian’s Visit to the Augsburger Puppenkiste
I Early Modern Cultures of Making In early modern Augsburg, a cultural and commercial hub of Southern Germany, feathers held a prominent...
Is a Veil a Veil? – Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli’s A Capo Coperto
In recent years, discussions about veiling have almost always revolved around Islamic women wearing hijab or other head coverings. To...
The Museo del Vetro in Murano: A Visit Worth Making
The island of Murano is closely linked to the idea of Venetian glass. Here, the Glass Museum, part of the Venice Civic Museums...
Shell Gold – Production, Usage, and Handling of a Historical Artisanal Technique (including a hands-
We touched on the topic of shell gold during our fascinating workshop in Cambridge with Dr Spike Bucklow at the Hamilton Karr Institute...
Effects and Affects of Bodily Practices
A focus on objects, affects and effects in early modern culture – such as in our research project – will almost certainly have to include...
Strolling Through History: Urban Topographies of Feather-workers
Studying early modern artisans, who specialised in the trade, usage and processing of feathers, I dedicated my last summer to search for...
Conference Report “The Materialities of Knowledge in Early Modern Cities”
The international transdisciplinary conference “The Materialities of Knowledge in Early Modern Cities” – organized by the research...
Venetian Glass Beads: A Subtle Commodity
The image of Venetian glass is generally associated to glassware, but a more subtle kind of glass items worked in the lagoon city had...
The World of Feathers
The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge holds an incredibly rich collection of featherwork that was produced...
