Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750 /

Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750 / / ed. by Natasha Seaman, Joanna Woodall.

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This is the first book to focus on coins as material artefacts and agents of meaning in the arts of the early modern period. The precious metals, double-sided form, and emblematic character of coins had deep resonance in European culture and cultural encounters. Coins embodied Europe’s impressive po...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Carrie,
Choi, Rana,
Crum, Roger J.,
Felten, Sebastian,
Ho, Angela,
Johnson, Heather G.S.,
Judovitz, Dalia,
Seaman, Natasha,
Stewart, Jessica Stevenson,
Stielau, Allison,
Woodall, Joanna,
HerausgeberIn:
Seaman, Natasha,
Woodall, Joanna,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700
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Physical Description:1 online resource (326 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Embodying Value
  • Power and Authority in the Mint
  • 1. Weighing Things Up in Maarten de Vos’s Tribunal of the Brabant Mint 1594
  • 2. Scaling the World: Allegory of Coinage and Monetary Governance in the Dutch Republic
  • Currency and the Anxieties of Global Trade
  • 3. Market Stall in Batavia: Money, Value, and Uncertainty in the Age of Global Trade
  • 4. Beyond the Mint: Picturing Gold on the Rijksmuseum’s Box of the Dutch West India Company
  • Coins and Persons
  • 5. The Heft of Truth: Inwardness and Debased Coinage in Shakespeare’s Plays
  • 6. Identity, Agency, Motion: Taylor’s Twelvepence and the Poetry of Commodity
  • Coins in and out of Circulation
  • 7. Margarethe Butzbach and the Florin Extorted by Blows. Coins Securing Social Bonds in Fifteenth-Century Germany
  • 8. Centring the Coin in Jacob Backer’s Woman with a Coin
  • Credit and Risk
  • 9. Accounting Faith and Seeing ‘Ghost Money’ in Masaccio’s Tribute Money
  • 10. Monetary Transactions and Pictorial Gambles in Georges de La Tour
  • Afterword
  • The Work of Art: The Installations of Kelli Rae Adams
  • Index

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