Materialities of Urban Life in Early Modern Europe

This conference seeks to bring together scholars working on the materiality of urban life from a variety of different disciplinary perspectives, in order to debate the particular qualities of public, private, commercial, domestic and civic material cultures to be found in towns across Europe.
For further information see the Material Histories blog.
        19 Apr 2013  
  
  Colour symbolism in the civic material culture of Renaissance Norwich
        Victor Morgan (University of East Anglia)  
  
            19 Apr 2013  
  
  Towards a geography of portraiture in Elizabethan and early Stuart England
        Robert Tittler (Concordia)  
  
            19 Apr 2013  
  
  Behind and within the wardrobe of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532/3-1588)
        Tracey Wedge (Southampton)  
  
            19 Apr 2013  
  
  Production and the missing artefacts: candles in the early modern Scottish town
        Aaron Allen (Edinburgh)  
  
            19 Apr 2013  
  
  Paris and the court of Francis I
        Glenn Richardson (St Mary's University College, Twickenham)  
  
            18 Apr 2013  
  
  'I know the lute'/'I know thee, lute': musical instruments as domestic objects on the early modern stage
        Simon Smith (Birkbeck, University of London)  
  
            18 Apr 2013  
  
  Including the kitchen sink: a lodging household in early seventeenth-century London
        Mark Merry (Institute of Historical Research)  
  
            18 Apr 2013  
  
  Exercise in the early modern Italian city: health, objects and emotions
        Tessa Storey (Royal Holloway, University of London)  
  
            18 Apr 2013  
  
  Constructing the material experience: a seventeenth-century trespass case from Sweden
        Riitta Laitinen (Turku)  
  
            18 Apr 2013  
  
  Dispossession and material insecurity in the early modern city
        Sara Pennell (Roehampton)  
  
            17 Apr 2013  
  
  The 'active lives' of objects on the urban domestic scene: cross-referencing archaeological and iconographic sources in early modern Europe
        David Gaimster (University of Glasgow)  
  
    