Telling objects
Subtitle: contextualizing the role of the consort in early modern Europe
By: edited by Jill Bepler and Svante Norrhem
Series: Wolfenbütteler Forschungen -- Band 153; Wolfenbütteler Forschungen -- Bd. 153.
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag, in Kommission; Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9783447109352
Subjects: Marriages of royalty and nobility; History; Culture diffusion; European Art objects; Civilization
Description: 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?. 0Two 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.
Notes: Copyright Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Jill Bepler and Svante Norrhem; title: Connecting courts, castles, capitals : cultural exchange in the Early Modern society of princes   -- Volker Bauer; title: Inventories and the movement of objects  -- Almut Bues; title: Facing Europe : the portraiture of Anne of Denmark (1574-1619)  -- Catharine MacLeod; title: "I was much courted by the entire English nation" : the English books owned by Sophie of the Palatinate, Electress of Hannover  -- Margherita Palumbo; title: "Nelle mode le pìu novelle" : the latest fashion trends (textiles, clothing and luxury fabrics) at the court of Grand Duchess Vittoria della Rovere de' Medici of Tuscany  -- Adelina Modesti; title: Devotion and unbelief of the Gonzaga sisters : the relic of the True Cross in Poland and France  -- Ewa Kociszewska; title: Princess Magdalena Sibylle's golden horn : dynastic women and cultural transfer between Denmark and Saxony  -- Mara Wade; title: Tulips, tobacco and parrots : consorts and their role in the transfer of animals and plants in the second half of the sixteenth century  -- Katrin Keller; title: Gender, dynasty and the politics of porcelain : the fact and impact of Meissen gifts to royal women, ca. 1714-50  -- Maureen Cassidy-Geiger; title: A personal gift- a part of cultural heritage : the coach brought to Lisbon by Maria Anna of Austria  -- Marília dos Santos Lopes; title: The ivory egg : Elisabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine's gift to Caroline of Ansbach -- Joanna Marschner.