Objects and Possessions: Material Goods in a Changing World 1200‒1800
Programme
Monday 3 April 2017
Lunch
Keynote 1:
Dr Chris Briggs , University of Cambridge
The possessions of late medieval English felons, fugitives and outlaws
Tea/coffee break
Panel 1a Importing Addictions: Coffee, Tea and Tobacco in British-Russian Relations
Clare Griffin , Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
A Failure of Exchange: Coffee on Paper but not in Practice in Moscow c.1660
Matthew Romaniello , University of Hawaii at Manoa
Stimulating the Market: The British Tobacco Factory in Moscow, 1705
Audra Yoder, Independent Scholar
Importing Luxury, Displaying Power: English Tea Silver in Russia, 1700-1800
Tuesday 4 April 2017
Panel 2a People and possessions in late medieval and early modern Ireland
Margaret Murphy , Carlow College
‘Thirty-three furs and eleven pairs of silken shoes’ ‒ possessions of the elite in late-medieval Ireland
Susan Flavin , Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Contested Commodities? The Meaning of Things in Sixteenth-Century Ireland
Rachel Tracey , School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, QUB
People, Plantation & Things: Material Culture & Cultural Identity in Early Modern Ulster
Panel 2b Objects and identities
Gerhard Jaritz , Central European University, Budapest
The Perception of ‘New’ in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture
Anu Mänd, Tallinn University, School of Humanities, Institute of History, Archaeology and Art History
From a popinjay to the deer-feet: the silver collection of the Brotherhood of the Black Heads in Tallinn
Mark J.R. Dennis , Curator, Museum of Freemasonry, London
Objects of Belonging – identity and legend in the material culture of fraternity
Tea/coffee break
Keynote 2:
Professor Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick
Britain’s material transition: innovation and everyday life in the early modern British world
Lunch
Panel 3a T he circulation of fashionable goods in early modern Europe
Juliet Claxton , King’s College, London
‘His wife was the rich china-woman that the courtiers visited so often’ (Ben Jonson: Epicene, [1.4] 1609): A taste for china in early modern London.
Natasha Awais-Dean , King’s College, London
‘It is an honour ‘longing to our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors’: inheriting jewels in early modern England
Jola Pellumbi , King’s College, London
From Constantinople to Venice: The Dissemination of Ottoman-Style Clothing
Panel 3b Renaissance and early modern Europe
Beverly Tjerngren , Uppsala University, Department of History
Carefully Considered Consumption: the Swedish Clergy’s Strategic Use of Material Culture
Pia Rudolph , Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters, Munich
A Delightful Combination: Books and Bonbons
Elizabeth Gemmill , Kellogg College, Oxford
Dead men’s treasures: Aberdeen burgess inventories of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Tea/coffee break
Panel 4a The material universe of some Iberian queens and princesses (14th‒16th century)
Adriana Almeida , University of Lisbon
Disposing of goods for the sake of one’s soul at the age of the Black Death
Maria Barreto Dávila , Nova University of Lisbon
The earthly possessions of Beatriz, infante of Portugal (c.1430-1506)
Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues , University of Lisbon
From treasure to collection: the luxurious objects of the queens of Portugal (15th‒16th centuries)
Panel 4b Domesticity and objects at home
Craig Cessford , Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge:
Assemblage biographies of household clearance deposits in England, 1200–1800
Sophie Cope, History Department, University of Birmingham
Furnishing time: dated chairs and familial identity in seventeenth-century England
Catherine Richardson , University of Kent
‘A fringe of yellow and blue silk and venis gold’: colouring the early modern provincial house
Fontini Kondyli , University of Virginia, and Florence Liard, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Sgraffito tablewares at the city of Thebes. Unforeseen Italian connections in late medieval Greece
Wednesday 5 April 2017
Panel 5a The Tentative Process of Possessing Things
Kate Smith , University of Birmingham
Lost Property and the Significance of Dispossession in Eighteenth-Century London
Elin Jones , University of Edinburgh
Naval Seamen, Irrational Consumption and Masculinity, 1756‒1815
Sara Pennell, University of Greenwich
Dismantling Possession in Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century England
P anel 5b Renaissance and early modern Europe
Julie De Groot , University of Antwerp
A Site for Exchanging Culture? The Material culture of Spanish Merchants in Sixteenth-Century Bruges
Tânia Manuel Casimiro , (IAP/IHC – NOVA University of Lisbon)
The possession and consumption of faience in Portuguese domestic environments (1550‒1800)
Trevor Dean , Roehampton University
Jews, Christians and disputes over objects in fifteenth-century Italy
Tea/coffee break
Keynote 3:
Dr Christer Petley, University of Southampton
People as Objects and Possessions: Slaveholders and Enslaved People in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Lunch
Panel 6a Clothing, fashion and the connections of goods
Astrid Pajur , Department of History, Uppsala University
Costume and Social Practices in Seventeenth-century Estonian Probate Inventories
Sarah A. Bendall , Department of History, University of Sydney
‘Our Countrey girles are a kin to your London Courtiers’: The Dissemination of Structural Undergarments and the Changing Hierarchy of Appearances in Seventeenth-Century England
Margareth Lanzinger, Vienna, and Janine Maegraith, Cambridge/Vienna
Objects as proxy for social and economic values, capabilities and relations
Panel 6b Europe and Beyond Europe
Chris Evans , University of South Wales, and Göran Rydén, Uppsala University
Producer goods in the Atlantic slave trade: European metals and their African uses
Ingrid Matschinegg , University of Salzburg / Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture, Krems
Bridging Distances: ‘Exotic’ Objects as Social Markers in Late Medieval and Early Modern Inventories
Kate Hill , University of Glasgow
The Form Adorned: Ormolu Mounts for Chinese Monochrome Porcelains
Tea/coffee break
Panel 7a Clothing, footwear and material culture
Matthew McCormack , University of Northampton
Boots, material culture and Georgian masculinities
Sadie Harrison , University College London
Collecting Fashion, Collecting Nature: Consumer Culture and Botanical Embroidery, 1700-1800
Elizabeth Spencer , University of York
‘Paid sister Mellish [what] she Laid out for me at London’: Clothing in the accounts of the Mellish family, 1705‒1718
Panel 7b Things medieval
Alex Sapoznik , Department of History, King’s College London
Religious symbolism and the trade and consumption of wax in medieval England
Eleanor Standley , Associate Professor and Curator of Medieval Archaeology, University of Oxford
The Archaeology of Medieval Possessions
Katherine Anne Wilson , Department of History and Archaeology, University of Chester
Choice, Concealment and Settings: The chest in medieval residences.
Tom Johnson , History, University of York
Forfeitures, Fines, and Dues during the ‘Golden Age’ of the English Peasantry, c.1350-1500
Helen Watt , University of York
In the hands of the servants of the Lord: Evidence for material culture in the York Chancery Probate Registers [End of day demonstration]
Thursday 6 April 2017
Panel 8: Bodies as possessions
Jane Campbell , Department of History, University of Exeter
Objects and possessions: noble display, liveried servants and the politics of power
Giulia Mari , King’s College London
Having a body/Owning a body: early modern dissections and the purchase of human anatomical specimens
Tea/coffee break
Panel 9: Gift-giving
Murray Andrews , Murray, University College London
Gold, goblets and geese: gift-giving and aristocratic baptisms in fifteenth-century England and Wales
Jesse J. Hysell , History, Syracuse University
The Role of Gifts in the Venetian Consulates of Mamluk Egypt (1480-1517)
Keynote 4:
Professor Chris Woolgar , University of Southampton
Southampton’s people and their goods, 1200‒1500
Lunch and depart
Image credit: Cartoon for tapestry, Francis Cleyn the elder, probably 1630s: University of Southampton Library, Special Collections.