Dr Catherine Richardson is a Reader in Renaissance Studies at the University of Kent, UK.Dr Tara Hamling is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Birmingham, UK.Professor David Gaimster is Director of the Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, UK.

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• List of FiguresSECTION 1: DEFINITIONS, DISCIPLINES, NEW DIRECTIONSIntroductionCatherine Richardson, Tara Hamling and David GaimsterChapter 1: Global Things: Europe’s Early Modern Material TransformationGiorgio RielloChapter 2: Cognitive History and Material CultureJohn Sutton and Nicholas KeeneSECTION 2: CONTEXTS AND CATEGORIESChapter 3: Maps and Material CultureBernhard KleinChapter 4: The Royal CourtGlenn RichardsonChapter 5: The Material Culture of Early Modern ChurchesAndrew SpicerChapter 6: Public Buildings in Early Modern EuropeKate GilesChapter 7: Domestic Buildings: Understanding Houses and SocietyChris KingChapter 8: Materiality and the Streetlife of the Early Modern CityAndrew GordonChapter 9: Materiality, Nature and the BodyErin Sullivan and Andrew WearChapter 10: Mortuary CultureHarold MytumChapter 11: ClothingMaria HaywardChapter 12: Getting Down from the Table: Early Modern Foodways and Material CultureSara PennellChapter 13: Arms and ArmourDavid GrummittChapter 14: Material TextsFrances Maguire and Helen SmithSECTION 3: OBJECT STUDIESObject Study 1: The Panyer Alley BoyAndrew GordonObject Study 2: Abraham Ortelius, his epitome of the theatre of the worldeDelia GarrattObject Study 3: ‘The Persian Sibyl’ Banqueting TrencherVictoria JacksonObject Study 4: A ‘Witch-bottle’Ann-Sophie ThwaiteObject Study 5: A Drug JarHannah LeeObject Study 6: A ShoehornSophie CopeObject Study 7: A Maiolica plateHollie ChungObject study 8: ‘Concealed’ leather shoesPeter HewittObject Study 9: Manuscript Directions for Weaving BraidsJan SibthorpeObject Study 10: The Balsambüchse – a Portable Seventeenth-Century Medicine CabinetLuisa CoscarelliObject Study 11: The Maidstone HelmetMalcolm MercerObject Study 12: A Dutch carved cupboardTara HamlingObject Study 13: An Embroidered MirrorClaire CanavanSECTION 4: MATERIAL CULTURE IN ACTIONChapter 15: The Material Culture of Lineage in late-Tudor and early-Stuart EnglandRichard CustChapter 16: The Malleable Moment in English Portraiture, c. 1540-1640Robert TittlerChapter 17: Is This a Man I See Before Me?: Early Modern Masculinities and the New MaterialismsAmanda BaileyChapter 18: In Praise of Clean Linen: Laundering Humours on the Early Modern English Stage Natasha Korda and Eleanor LoweChapter 19: Early Modern Religious Objects or Objects of Belief?Suzanna Ivanič Chapter 20: The Material Culture of Piety in the Italian Renaissance: Re-touching the Rosary Irene Galandra Cooper and Mary LavenChapter 21: Early Modern Spaces and Olfactory TracesDavid Karmon and Christy AndersonChapter 22: Musical Sound and Material CultureFlora DennisChapter 23: Lasting Impressions of the Common WoodcutPatricia Fumerton and Megan Palmer-Browne, with William PalmerChapter 24: Baroque Sculpture: Materiality and the Question of MovementNigel LlewellynChapter 25: Rights of Privacy in Early Modern English HouseholdsLena Cowen OrlinChapter 26: Antwerp and the ‘Material Renaissance’: Exploring the social and economic significance of crystal glass and majolica in the sixteenth centuryInneke Baatsen, Bruno Blondé and Carolien De StaelenChapter 27: I Say ‘Shard’, You Say ‘Sherd’: contrasting and complimentary approaches to a piece of early modern ‘venice glass’Angela McShane and Nigel Jeffries

Dr Catherine Richardson is a Reader in Renaissance Studies at the University of Kent, UK.Dr Tara Hamling is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Birmingham, UK.Professor David Gaimster is Director of the Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, UK.

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• List of FiguresSECTION 1: DEFINITIONS, DISCIPLINES, NEW DIRECTIONSIntroductionCatherine Richardson, Tara Hamling and David GaimsterChapter 1: Global Things: Europe’s Early Modern Material TransformationGiorgio RielloChapter 2: Cognitive History and Material CultureJohn Sutton and Nicholas KeeneSECTION 2: CONTEXTS AND CATEGORIESChapter 3: Maps and Material CultureBernhard KleinChapter 4: The Royal CourtGlenn RichardsonChapter 5: The Material Culture of Early Modern ChurchesAndrew SpicerChapter 6: Public Buildings in Early Modern EuropeKate GilesChapter 7: Domestic Buildings: Understanding Houses and SocietyChris KingChapter 8: Materiality and the Streetlife of the Early Modern CityAndrew GordonChapter 9: Materiality, Nature and the BodyErin Sullivan and Andrew WearChapter 10: Mortuary CultureHarold MytumChapter 11: ClothingMaria HaywardChapter 12: Getting Down from the Table: Early Modern Foodways and Material CultureSara PennellChapter 13: Arms and ArmourDavid GrummittChapter 14: Material TextsFrances Maguire and Helen SmithSECTION 3: OBJECT STUDIESObject Study 1: The Panyer Alley BoyAndrew GordonObject Study 2: Abraham Ortelius, his epitome of the theatre of the worldeDelia GarrattObject Study 3: ‘The Persian Sibyl’ Banqueting TrencherVictoria JacksonObject Study 4: A ‘Witch-bottle’Ann-Sophie ThwaiteObject Study 5: A Drug JarHannah LeeObject Study 6: A ShoehornSophie CopeObject Study 7: A Maiolica plateHollie ChungObject study 8: ‘Concealed’ leather shoesPeter HewittObject Study 9: Manuscript Directions for Weaving BraidsJan SibthorpeObject Study 10: The Balsambüchse – a Portable Seventeenth-Century Medicine CabinetLuisa CoscarelliObject Study 11: The Maidstone HelmetMalcolm MercerObject Study 12: A Dutch carved cupboardTara HamlingObject Study 13: An Embroidered MirrorClaire CanavanSECTION 4: MATERIAL CULTURE IN ACTIONChapter 15: The Material Culture of Lineage in late-Tudor and early-Stuart EnglandRichard CustChapter 16: The Malleable Moment in English Portraiture, c. 1540-1640Robert TittlerChapter 17: Is This a Man I See Before Me?: Early Modern Masculinities and the New MaterialismsAmanda BaileyChapter 18: In Praise of Clean Linen: Laundering Humours on the Early Modern English Stage Natasha Korda and Eleanor LoweChapter 19: Early Modern Religious Objects or Objects of Belief?Suzanna Ivanič Chapter 20: The Material Culture of Piety in the Italian Renaissance: Re-touching the Rosary Irene Galandra Cooper and Mary LavenChapter 21: Early Modern Spaces and Olfactory TracesDavid Karmon and Christy AndersonChapter 22: Musical Sound and Material CultureFlora DennisChapter 23: Lasting Impressions of the Common WoodcutPatricia Fumerton and Megan Palmer-Browne, with William PalmerChapter 24: Baroque Sculpture: Materiality and the Question of MovementNigel LlewellynChapter 25: Rights of Privacy in Early Modern English HouseholdsLena Cowen OrlinChapter 26: Antwerp and the ‘Material Renaissance’: Exploring the social and economic significance of crystal glass and majolica in the sixteenth centuryInneke Baatsen, Bruno Blondé and Carolien De StaelenChapter 27: I Say ‘Shard’, You Say ‘Sherd’: contrasting and complimentary approaches to a piece of early modern ‘venice glass’Angela McShane and Nigel Jeffries

Dr Catherine Richardson is a Reader in Renaissance Studies at the University of Kent, UK.Dr Tara Hamling is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Birmingham, UK.Professor David Gaimster is Director of the Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, UK.

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• List of FiguresSECTION 1: DEFINITIONS, DISCIPLINES, NEW DIRECTIONSIntroductionCatherine Richardson, Tara Hamling and David GaimsterChapter 1: Global Things: Europe’s Early Modern Material TransformationGiorgio RielloChapter 2: Cognitive History and Material CultureJohn Sutton and Nicholas KeeneSECTION 2: CONTEXTS AND CATEGORIESChapter 3: Maps and Material CultureBernhard KleinChapter 4: The Royal CourtGlenn RichardsonChapter 5: The Material Culture of Early Modern ChurchesAndrew SpicerChapter 6: Public Buildings in Early Modern EuropeKate GilesChapter 7: Domestic Buildings: Understanding Houses and SocietyChris KingChapter 8: Materiality and the Streetlife of the Early Modern CityAndrew GordonChapter 9: Materiality, Nature and the BodyErin Sullivan and Andrew WearChapter 10: Mortuary CultureHarold MytumChapter 11: ClothingMaria HaywardChapter 12: Getting Down from the Table: Early Modern Foodways and Material CultureSara PennellChapter 13: Arms and ArmourDavid GrummittChapter 14: Material TextsFrances Maguire and Helen SmithSECTION 3: OBJECT STUDIESObject Study 1: The Panyer Alley BoyAndrew GordonObject Study 2: Abraham Ortelius, his epitome of the theatre of the worldeDelia GarrattObject Study 3: ‘The Persian Sibyl’ Banqueting TrencherVictoria JacksonObject Study 4: A ‘Witch-bottle’Ann-Sophie ThwaiteObject Study 5: A Drug JarHannah LeeObject Study 6: A ShoehornSophie CopeObject Study 7: A Maiolica plateHollie ChungObject study 8: ‘Concealed’ leather shoesPeter HewittObject Study 9: Manuscript Directions for Weaving BraidsJan SibthorpeObject Study 10: The Balsambüchse – a Portable Seventeenth-Century Medicine CabinetLuisa CoscarelliObject Study 11: The Maidstone HelmetMalcolm MercerObject Study 12: A Dutch carved cupboardTara HamlingObject Study 13: An Embroidered MirrorClaire CanavanSECTION 4: MATERIAL CULTURE IN ACTIONChapter 15: The Material Culture of Lineage in late-Tudor and early-Stuart EnglandRichard CustChapter 16: The Malleable Moment in English Portraiture, c. 1540-1640Robert TittlerChapter 17: Is This a Man I See Before Me?: Early Modern Masculinities and the New MaterialismsAmanda BaileyChapter 18: In Praise of Clean Linen: Laundering Humours on the Early Modern English Stage Natasha Korda and Eleanor LoweChapter 19: Early Modern Religious Objects or Objects of Belief?Suzanna Ivanič Chapter 20: The Material Culture of Piety in the Italian Renaissance: Re-touching the Rosary Irene Galandra Cooper and Mary LavenChapter 21: Early Modern Spaces and Olfactory TracesDavid Karmon and Christy AndersonChapter 22: Musical Sound and Material CultureFlora DennisChapter 23: Lasting Impressions of the Common WoodcutPatricia Fumerton and Megan Palmer-Browne, with William PalmerChapter 24: Baroque Sculpture: Materiality and the Question of MovementNigel LlewellynChapter 25: Rights of Privacy in Early Modern English HouseholdsLena Cowen OrlinChapter 26: Antwerp and the ‘Material Renaissance’: Exploring the social and economic significance of crystal glass and majolica in the sixteenth centuryInneke Baatsen, Bruno Blondé and Carolien De StaelenChapter 27: I Say ‘Shard’, You Say ‘Sherd’: contrasting and complimentary approaches to a piece of early modern ‘venice glass’Angela McShane and Nigel Jeffries