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)