The agency of things in Medieval and early modern art : : materials, power and manipulation / / edited by Grazyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz and Zuzanna Sarnecka.

• Superior document: Routledge Research in Art History
• TeilnehmendeR: Matyjaszkiewicz, Ika,; Jurkowlaniec, Grazyna,; Sarnecka, Zuzanna,
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge research in art history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: part Introduction --; chapter Art History Empowering Medieval and Early Modern Things /; part PART 1 Material Agency --; chapter 1 The Power of Nature and the Agency of Art: The Unicorn Cup of Jan Vermeyen /; chapter 2 Late Medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries: Mixed Media, Remnant Art, Recyclage and Gender in the Low Countries (Sixteenth Century Onwards) /; part PART 2 The Power of Things --; chapter 3 Knighted by the Apostle Himself: Political Fabrication and Chivalric Artefact in Compostela,1332 /; chapter 4 Agency and Miraculous Images /; chapter 5 Agency, Beauty and the Late Medieval Sculptural Encounter /; part PART 3 Objects as Social Agents --; chapter 6 Dispersal, Exchange and the Culture of Things in Fifteenth-century Italy /; chapter 7 Michelangelo, Tommaso de’ Cavalieri and the Agency of the Gift-Drawing /; chapter 8 Distributing Durer in the Netherlands: Gifts, Prints, and the Mediation of Fame in the Early Sixteenth Century /; part PART 4 Agency of Physical Manipulations --; chapter 9 The Early Modern Bible between Material Book and Immaterial Word /; chapter 10 Diagnostic Performance and Diagrammatic Manipulation in the Physician’s Folding Almanacs /; chapter 11 Surgical Saws and Cutting-Edge Agency /; part PART 5 The Agency of Things and Human Agency --; chapter 12 The Boots of Saint Hedwig: Thoughts on the Limits of the Agency of Things /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• ISBN: 1351681494; 1315166941; 1351681508
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Grazyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz and Zuzanna Sarnecka.

"This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or pawned. Through a series of case studies set in various geographic locations, this volume examines a rich variety of systems throughout Europe and beyond."--Provided by publisher.