Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700

Katherine A. Wilson is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Chester. She is the Principal Investigator of an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Network Grant and Follow on Funding for Impact and Engagement on the subject of ‘The Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700’, partnered with the University of Oxford and the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. Her monograph The Power of Textiles: Tapestries of the Burgundian Dominions (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018) reveals textiles as objects that contributed to the projection of urban social status and the cultural construction of political authority by medieval rulers. Leah R. Clark is Director of Studies of Art History for the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford. Her research explores the roles objects play in creating networks in the fifteenth century through their exchange, collection, and replication. She is author of Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court: Objects and Exchanges (Cambridge University Press, 2018), co-editor (with Nancy Um) of a special issue 'The Art of Embassy: Objects and Images of Early Modern Diplomacy' of the Journal of Early Modern History, (2016) and co-editor (with Kathleen Christian) of a textbook on the ‘global Renaissance’, European Art and the Wider World 1350-1550 (Manchester University Press, 2017).

• List of illustrationsIntroduction: The Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700 Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. ClarkPart I: Thresholds and BoundariesIntroduction Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark1 A Prehistory of Movement: Tracking Object Mobility Around the Viking-Age North Sea Alison M. Leonard and Steven P. Ashby2 Characterising Transformation in Religious Material Culture AD 1000-1700: Through the Study of Archaeological Small Finds Discovered by the Public in England and Wales Michael Lewis3 Crossing Boundaries with Pilgrim Badges Robert Maniura4 Crossing Thresholds and Creating Boundaries: A Cultural Itinerary of Chests in Late Medieval England Sarah Hinds5 The Mobility of Objects Across Time and Space: Chests in Renaissance Italian and German Bridal Trousseaux (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) Christina AntenhoferPart II: Framing and TranslationIntroduction Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark6 Jan van Eyck’s Syrian Apothecary Jar: The Earliest Known Depiction of Middle Eastern Ceramics in Medieval European Art Alexandra van Dongen7 Wandering Things and the Human/Object Boundary: A Literary Approach Bettina Bildhauer8 Uncovering Daily Life in the Archive? Framing Domestic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Bruges Inventories Julie De Groot9 Objects in Time: The Affective Power of a Prie-Dieu in Seventeenth-Century France Jennifer Hillman10 Crossing Borders: The Hidden Life of a Manuscript Letter Ruth Whelan11 The Black-lead of Borrowdale, 1500-1750: An Object History of a Mutable Material Christopher Donaldson12 Why do Some Things Become More Mobile, 1000-1700? Thomas PicklesBibliographyIndex