Volume 43 Index
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Archiv für September 2013
„The Sign of the Last“: Gender, Material Culture, and Artisanal Nostalgia in The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1599) is filled with shoes. Every aspect of shoes’ social lives is enacted onstage: they are manufactured before our eyes, bought and sold, given as gifts, displayed as signs of status, and fl…
New Books across the Disciplines
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Stranger Artisans and the London Sanctuary of St. Martin le Grand in the Reign of Henry VIII
St. Martin le Grand, a precinct within the walls of London, was both a sanctuary and a liberty: it offered asylum to accused felons, and it allowed immigrant craftsmen to work and sell within its bounds despite London’s strict restrictions on al…
Artisans and the New Science of Politics in Early Modern Europe
How did artisanal methods and practices inform the new science of politics attributed to Machiavelli and elaborated by others? Historians of science have noted how artisans’ direct observation of nature and knowledge acquired from hands-on exper…
Artisans and Religious Reading in Late Medieval Italy and Northern France (ca. 1400-ca. 1520)
This essay investigates how a specific group of laypeople, individuals and groups of literate artisans in late medieval French and Italian towns, participated in distinctive ways in contemporary devotional reading culture. Through an analysis of colop…
Call for Submissions
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The Lies of the Painters: Artisan Trickery and the Labor of Painting in Boccaccio’s Decameron and Sacchetti’s Trecentonovelle
Giorgio Vasari’s portraits of fourteenth-century Florentine painters Giotto and Buffalmacco in his Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects are indebted to two medieval novella collections: Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron and Franco…
Medieval and Early Modern Artisan Culture
As an economic category, artisans are typically bounded by two historical markers: on one side, the rise of urban centers in the medieval period, and on the other side, the reorganization of commodity production as a result of industrial capitalizatio…
Exotic Edibles: Coffee, Tea, Chocolate, and the Early Modern French How-to
An artisanal practice with no domestic precedent in the seventeenth century, hot beverages had a dubious charm for Europeans. Unlike mirror-making and ceramics, the craft of the „coffee-man“ resulted in something new that was edible and that proved ph…