Everyday objects : medieval and early modern material culture and its meanings

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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'For a crack or flaw despis'd' : thinking about ceramic durability and the 'everyday' in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England / Sara Pennell -- The material culture of walking : spaces of methodologies in the long eighteenth century / Giorgio Riello -- In the sight of an old pair of shoes / Stephen Kelly -- Lexicological confusion and medieval clothing culture : redressing medieval dress with the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing in Britain project / Mark Chambers and Louise Sylvester -- Pins and aglets / Jenny Tiramani -- Froes, rebatoes and other 'outlandish comodityes' : weaving alien women's work into the fabric of early modern material culture / Natasha Korda -- A shadow of a former self : analysis of an early seventeenth-century boy's doublet from Abingdon / Maria Hayward -- Ordinary pots : the inventory of Francesco di Luca, Orciolaio, and Cipriano Piccolpassos Three books of the art of the potter / Stephen Wharton -- Archaeology of an age of print? : everyday objects in an age of transition / David Gaimster -- The conservation of garments concealed within buildings as material culture in action / Dinah Eastop -- The enchantment of the familiar face : portraits as domestic objects in Elizabethan and Jacobean England / Tarnya Cooper -- Faces and spaces : displaying the civic portrait in early modern England / Robert Tittler -- Resurrecting forgotton sound : fans and handbells in early modern Italy / Flora Dennis -- 'A pottell of ayle on whyt Sonday' : everyday objects and the musical culture of the post-Reformation English parish church / Jonathan Willis -- Bagpipes and patterns of conformity in late medieval England / John J. Thompson -- Two texts and an image make an object : a devotional sheet from pre-Reformation England / R.N. Swanson -- Contesting the everyday : the cultural biography of a subversive playing card / Richard L. Williams -- Remembering the dead at dinner-time / Sheila Sweetinburgh -- 'A table of alabaster with the story of the doom' : the religious objects and spaces of the guild of Our Blessed Virgin, Boston (Lincs) / Kate Giles -- 'A very fit hat' : personal objects and early modern affection / Catherine Richardson -- Empty vessels / Lena Cowen Orlin -- Objectification, identity and the late medieval codex / Ryan Perry -- Reconciling image and object : religious imagery in Protestant interior decoration / Tara Hamling