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Title Sites of mediation : connected histories of places, processes, and objects in Europe and beyond, 1450-1650 / edited by Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, and Christine Gottler.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 410 pages) : illustrations (some color), map.
text file
Series Intersections ; volume 47
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 47.
Summary "This book explores the dynamic relationships between sites, people, objects, and images during the first age of globalization in early modern Europe. It investigates interactions, interconnections and entanglements on both micro and macro levels, and aims to understand the specific dynamics of processes of translocal and transcultural intersection. Linking global history with the history of material culture, Sites of Mediation highlights the potential of objects, artefacts, and things to connect (urban) cultures and imaginaries. Individual chapters focus on a number of European cities, which all operated on different levels of global and interregional connections and are presented here as sites of connectivity, encounters, and exchange. Contributors are: Tina Asmussen, Nadia S. Baadj, Benedikt Bego-Ghina, Davina Benkert, Daniela Bleichmar, Franziska Hilfiker, Nicolai Kölmel, Ivo Raband, Jennifer Rabe, Antonella Romano, Michael Schaffner, Sarah-Maria Schober, Claudia Swan, and Stefanie Wyssenbach"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgements; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction: 'Sites of Mediation' in Early Modern Europe and Beyond. A Working Perspective; Part 1 Staging Encounters; Chapter 1 Rome and its Indies: A Global System of Knowledge at the End of the Sixteenth Century; Chapter 2 Staging Genoa in Antwerp: The Triumphal Arch of the Genoese Nation for the Blijde Inkomst of Archduke Ernest of Austria into Antwerp, 1594; Chapter 3 Setting the Stage for Oneself and Others: Venice and the Levant in the Fifteenth Century.
Chapter 4 The Queen in the Pawnshop: Shaping Civic Virtues in a Painting for the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in VeniceChapter 5 Through the Stained Glass: The Basel Schützenhaus as a Site of Encounter; Part 2 Translation, Transmission, Transformation; Chapter 6 The Kux as a Site of Mediation: Economic Practices and Material Desires in the Early Modern German Mining Industry; Chapter 7 Mediating between Art and Nature: The Countess of Arundel at Tart Hall; Chapter 8 The 'Hortus Siccus' as a Focal Point: Knowledge, Environment, and Image in Felix Platter's and Caspar Bauhin's Herbaria.
Chapter 9 Translation, Mobility, and Mediation: The Case of the Codex MendozaChapter 10 Collaborative Craftsmanship and Chimeric Creation in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Art Cabinets; Part 3 Fluid Worlds; Chapter 11 Hermaphrodites in Basel? Figures of Ambiguity and the Early Modern Physician; Chapter 12 Riches of the Sea: Collecting and Consuming Frans Snijders's Marine Market Paintings in the Southern Netherlands; Chapter 13 Negotiating Arctic Waters: John Davis's The Worldes Hydrographical Discription; Chapter 14 Fortunes at Sea: Mediated Goods and Dutch Trade, Circa 1600; Index Nominum.
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Subject Europe -- History -- 1492-1648 -- Historiography.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 1492-1648
Subject Historic sites -- Europe.
Historiography.
Europe -- History, Local.
Local history.
Historic sites.
Material culture -- Europe -- History.
Material culture.
Cities and towns -- Europe -- History.
Cities and towns.
City and town life -- Europe -- History.
City and town life.
Acculturation -- Europe -- History.
Acculturation.
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Europe -- Relations.
Relations.
Europe -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Local history.
Added Author Burghartz, Susanna, 1956- editor.
Burkart, Lucas, editor.
Göttler, Christine, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Sites of Mediation. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004229563 (DLC) 2016030588 (OCoLC)951999191
ISBN 9789004325760 (electronic book)
900432576X (electronic book)
9789004229563 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9004229566 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004325760