Everyday political objects : : from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world / / edited by Christopher Fletcher.

• TeilnehmendeR: Fletcher, Christopher David,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Routledge,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 pages)
• Notes: 1. Introduction: Useful Objects Christopher Fletcher 2. Rings of Power: The Interpretation of Early Medieval Objects of Adornment Julie Renou 3. The Practical and Symbolic Uses of the Medieval Horn: From Power Object to Common Instrument Luc Bourgeois 4. A History of Domestic Disorder: The French Royal Household in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Gil Bartholeyns 5. The Prince and His Coffer: The Material Functions and Symbolic Power of an Everyday Political Object at the End of the Middle Ages Jean-Baptiste Santamaria 6. Teapots, Fans and Snuffboxes: The Portable Politics of Gender and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding 7. Wooden Shoes and Wellington Boots: The Politics of Footwear in Georgian Britain. Matthew McCormack 8. The Fan during the French Revolution: From the Elite to the People Mathilde Semal 9. Resisting with Objects? Seditious Political Objects and Their 'Agency' in Restoration France (1814-1830) Emmanuel Fureix 10. A Sonorous Politics of Everyday Objects: Coal Workers' Charivaris during the Anzin Strike of 1884 Adrien Quièvre 11. Political Fashion: Elegance as Subversion in the Congos of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Manuel Charpy 12. 'Citizen Browning': The Banality of a Revolutionary Object, c. 1905-c. 1912 Eric Fournier 13. Bringing Audible Propaganda into the Everyday: The Politicization of the Phonograph Record from its Origins to the SERP, 1888-2000 Jonathan Thomas 14. Image, Voice and Voivodes: Communist Diafilm in Romania, 1950-1989 Alexandra Ilina 15. The Trajectory of a Spear: The Materiality of an Everyday Political Object in North-Western Burkina Laurence Douny

Everyday Political Objects examines a series of historical case studies across a very broad timescale, using objects as a means to develop different approaches to understanding politics where both internal and external definitions of the political prove inadequate. Materiality and objects have gradu...

Table of Contents

• Introduction : useful objects / Christopher Fletcher
• Rings of power : the interpretation of early medieval objects of adornment / Julie Renou
• The practical and symbolic uses of the medieval horn : from power object to common instrument / Luc Bourgeois
• A history of domestic disorder : the French royal household in the thirteenth and fourteenth century / Gil Bartholeyns
• The prince and his coffer : the material functions and symbolic power of an everyday political object at the end of the Middle Ages / Jean-Baptiste Santamaria
• Teapots, fans and snuffboxes : the portable politics of gender and empire in eighteenth century Britain / Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding
• Wooden shoes and Wellington boots : the politics of footwear in Georgian Britain / Matthew McCormack
• The fan during the French Revolution : from the elite to the people / Mathilde Semal
• Resisting with objects? : seditious political objects and their 'agency' in Restoration France (1814-1830) / Emmanuel Fureix
• A sonorous politics of everyday objects : coal workers' charivaris during the Anzin strike of 1884 / Adrien Quièvre
• Political fashion : elegance as subversion in the Congos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Manuel Charpy
• 'Citizen Browning' : the banality of a revolutionary object, c.1905-c.1912 / Eric Fournier
• Bringing audible propaganda into the everyday : the politicization of the phonograph record from its origins to the SERP, 1888-2000 / Jonathan Thomas
• Image, voice and voivodes : communist diafilm in Romania, 1950-1989 / Alexandra Ilina
• The trajectory of a spear : the materiality of an everyday political object in northwestern Burkina / Laurence Douny.