ISBN:
9780192523655
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (270 pages)
Series Statement:
Emotions in History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.09
Keywords:
Material culture
;
Emotions
;
Object (Philosophy)
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A book about the ways in which humans have been bound affectively to the material world in and over time; how they have made, commissioned, and used objects to facilitate their emotional lives; how they felt about their things; and the ways certain things from the past continue to make people feel today.
Abstract:
Cover -- Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1: A Feeling for Things, Past and Present -- Part I: Potent Things -- 2: Matter Matters -- Emotions and the Magdalene -- Emotions and Devotion -- Emotions and Material -- 3: Signs of Emotion: Pilgrimage Tokens from the Cathedral of Notre-Dame of Chartres -- 4: Capturing Christ's Tears: La Sainte Larme in Medieval and Early Modern France -- Introduction -- Part I: Tears, Tales , Travels-From Bethany to Vendôme -- Part II : Court, Curia, and Classics -- Part III: Fakes, Frauds, and Faith -- Conclusion -- 5: Holding the Sole: Shoes, Emotions, and the Supernatural -- Pre-Modern Shoes -- Fairy Tales -- Holy Shoes -- Concealed Shoes -- Part II: Binding Things -- 6: Get a Grip? The Tactile Object of Handlyng Synne -- Afecting Passages -- Handling the Flesh, Feeling the Book -- Sticking, Twitching, Circling -- A SUBTLE TOUCH -- 7: Emotional Debris in Early Modern Letters -- Ink Blots -- The Hand -- The Carier, Bearer, or Postboy -- The Drafts -- A Griping Tone -- The Archive -- Conclusion -- 8: Emotional Attachments: Iron Hands, their Makers, and their Wearers, 1450-1600 -- The Bombardiers of Buti -- Comunities of Technique -- Extant Iron Hands -- Wearers: Affect and Perseverance -- Conclusion: On the Absence of Women -- 9: Materializing Maternal Emotions: Birth, Celebration, and Renunciation in England, c.1688-1830 -- Part III: Moving Things -- 10: Dirk Hartog's Sea Chest: An Affective Archaeology of VOC Objects in Australia -- Pride and Pew ter: Dirk Hartog's Plate -- Detritus and Desolation: Company Finds -- Carpets of Silver: The Hunter-Gatherers -- Communication Conduits: Modern Material Dialogues about Memories, Histories, Individuals, Communities.
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