The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe

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<I><br/><br/><P>The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe </I>marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established field of multi-disciplinary research.</P><br/><br/><P>The volume provides a rounded, accessible collection of work on the nature and significance of <I>materiality </I>in early modern Europe - a term that embraces a vast range of objects as well as addressing a wide variety of human interactions with their physical environments. This stimulating view of materiality is distinctive in asking questions about the whole material world as a context for lived experience, and the book considers material interactions at all social levels.</P><br/><br/><P>There are 27 chapters by leading experts as well as 13 feature object studies to highlight specific items that have survived from this period (defined broadly as c.1500-c.1800). These contributions explore the things people acquired, owned, treasured, displayed and disca