Early Modern Things: Objects and Their Histories, 1500-1800

ISBN-13: 9781138483149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 460 str.

Paula Findlen

Opis

This book supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made – came to define some of the key developments of the early modern world. It is essential reading for all those interested in the early modern world and the history of material culture.

Recenzje

"A cornucopia: a rich and valuable collection that ranges far and wide in its analysis of the dynamic and diverse powers - symbolic, material, economic, political and religious - of things in the early-modern world. These essays raise important questions about taking objects seriously for historians of any era."

John Brewer, California Institute of Technology, USA

O autorze

Paula Findlen is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History and Director of the Suppes Center for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Stanford University, USA.  Her previous works include Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (1994), and, most recently Empires of Knowledge: Scientific Networks in the Early Modern World (2019), Leonardo’s Library (2019), and The Renaissance of Letters (2020). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.