Telling Objects
Contextualizing the Role of the Consort in Early Modern Europe
edited by Jill Bepler and Svante Norrhem
These essays give examples of how objects on the move could transfer value (symbolic, dynastic or financial) and how the perception of these objects, many of which have become part of contemporary national heritage, changed across generations along with the impact they had, both culturally and politically.
The idea for this volume originated from discussions at the first international conference of the HERA project “Marrying Cultures”. Colleagues from museums, galleries and university contexts were asked to focus not on the figure of the early modern consort herself but on specific objects or genres of objects associated with her. When a royal bride moved from one territory to another, she transported quantities of furniture, books, paintings, clothes, or jewelry to her new home. In later life, she often continued to acquire things from her native country or via her dynastic networks or she could serve as a conduit through which objects were “exported”. Two introductory essays look at patterns of exchange and inheritance. The case studies of objects that follow reveal general patterns of cultural exchange set in motion by royal consorts, in several cases focusing on relatively under-studied courts and dynasties. East and west, north and south were interconnected by objects and people through physical travel and via letters and in print. Gifts, trade or inheritance played a part in moving objects over space and time. These essays give examples of how objects on the move could transfer value (symbolic, dynastic or financial) and how the perception of these objects, many of which have become part of contemporary national heritage, changed across generations along with the impact they had, both culturally and politically.
- Edited by Jill Bepler
- Edited by Svante Norrhem
Other Titles in this Series
Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (1617-1680). Hundert Jahre nach der Reformation
Forschungen der Arbeitsstelle der Sachsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften an der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuttel
Volume 150
Innovation in Forschung und Lehre
Die Philosophische Fakultat der Universitat Helmstedt in der Fruhaufklarung 1680-1740
Volume 132
Verfuhrung zur Galanterie
Benehmen, Korperlichkeit und Gefuhlsinszenierungen im literarischen Kulturtransfer 1664-1772
Volume 152
Reforming Early Modern Monarchies
The Castilian Arbitristas in Comparative European Perspectives
Volume 143
Der Theologe und Schriftsteller Friedrich Dedekind (1524/5-1598). Eine Biographie
Mit einem Beitrag von Britta-Juliane Kruse zu Dedekinds geistlichen Spielen und der Erstedition der Hochzeit zu Cana in Galilea
Volume 145
Medienphantasie und Medienreflexion in der Fruhen Neuzeit
Festschrift fur Jorg Jochen Berns
Volume 157
Gebetsliteratur der Fruhen Neuzeit als Hausfrommigkeit
Funktionen und Formen in Deutschland und den Niederlanden
Volume 92
Die Religionsphilosophie Christian Franckens (1552- 1610?)
Atheismus und radikale Reformation im Fruhneuzeitlichen Ostmitteleuropa
Volume 117
Christianity beyond Christendom
The Global Christian Experience on Medieval Mappaemundi and Early Modern World Maps
Volume 149
Theologe, Erbauungsschriftsteller, Hofprediger
Joachim Lutkemann in Rostock und Wolfenbuttel
Volume 136
Adel und Mehrsprachigkeit in der Fruhen Neuzeit
Ziele, Formen und Praktiken des Erwerbs und Gebrauchs von Fremdsprachen
Volume 155
Die litauische Wolfenbutteler Postille von 1573
Faksimile, kritische Edition und textkritischer Apparat
Volume 118
Frauen – Bucher – Hofe
Wissen und Sammeln vor 1800. Women - Books - Courts: Knowledge and Collecting before 1800: Essays in honor of Jill Bepler
Volume 151
Vorwelten und Vorzeiten
Archaologie als Spiegel historischen Bewusstseins in der Fruhen Neuzeit
Volume 124
Mabillon und andere
Die Anfange der Diplomatik. Aus dem Polnischen ubersetzt von Martin Faber
Volume 159
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