Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750 Objects, Affects, Effects

This collection engages with the agentive qualities of matter and it shows how affective dimensions in history connect with material history. It also explores the religious and cultural identity dimensions of the use of materials and artefacts.

About the author

Susanna Burghartz is Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern History at the University of Basel. Lucas Burkart is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at the University of Basel. Christine Göttler, Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Bern, specializes in the art of early modern Europe. She has published widely on collecting practices, the interactions between various arts and crafts, the alchemy of color, and the changing relations between art and nature and between natural philosophical and religious traditions. Her current book project explores Peter Paul Rubens's engagement with the global world of seventeenth-century Antwerp. Ulinka Rublack is Professor of Early Modern History at Cambridge University and Fellow of St John's College.

Product details

• Authors: Prof. Dr. Susanna Burkart Burghartz
• Assisted by: Christine Göttler (Editor), Susanna Burghartz (Editor), Lucas Burkart (Editor)
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 02.08.2021
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art
• EAN: 9789463728959
• ISBN: 978-94-63-72895-9
• Pages: 418
• Dimensions (packing): 18 x 25 x 2.3 cm
• Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700; Amsterdam University Press