‎Müller Heiner‎
‎Material‎

‎Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2001 Hardback, XXIV+246 p., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503510743.‎

‎The essays in this collection challenge cultural materialists in different disciplines to articulate specific relationships between modern theoretical positions and the ideas and conventions that shaped the production of medieval and Renaissance cultures in Europe. The phrase 'cultural materialism', coined by Raymond Williams in 1977, names an approach to cultural analysis that interrogates the socio-economic conditions within which artefacts are produced as well as their participation in other ideological and material fields of culture. This approach, which has led to the emergence of cultural studies as a discipline, has also contributed to a sea-change within medieval and Renaissance scholarship. Disciplines that have traditionally studied cultural artefacts like literature and painting have increasingly emphasized the kinds of questions Williams articulated, focusing on the material production and ideological operation of objects once thought of in idealized or purely aesthetic terms. By the same token, historians - whose work, of necessity, has always tended to deal with the material traces of culture - have increasingly been willing to consider the social and ideological importance of art. The increasing popularity of this cultural studies approach to the past has in turn spurred investigation into other kinds of materiality. Recent historical and literary scholarship, for example, has become increasingly aware of the ways in which the lived materiality of the human body informs a range of cultural discourses. Insofar as it still typically attends to the material/ideological significance of the artefacts it considers, such scholarship falls within the generous confines of cultural studies. But where the Marxist tradition inherited from Williams tends to see economic relations as basic, this school of thought sees the experience of the body - always historicized, and understood as the basis for constant symbolic appropriation into other fields of discourse - as an alternative and perhaps more fundamental kind of materiality. Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance attests to the vitality of these approaches to materialist scholarship within and across different periods, disciplines, and national traditions. New.‎

‎Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204. The Evidence of Art and Material Culture‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 572 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:220 b/w, 35 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503598505.‎

‎Summary Based on the evidence of artistic production and material culture this collective volume aims at exploring cross-cultural relations and interaction between Greeks and Latins in late medieval Greece in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. Fourteen essays discuss mostly new and unpublished archaeological and artistic material, including architecture, sculpture, wall-paintings and icons, pottery and other small finds, but also the evidence of music and poetry. Through the surviving material of these artistic activities this volume explores the way Byzantines and Latins lived side by side on the Greek mainland and the Aegean islands from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries and traces the mechanisms that led to the emergence of the new, composite world of the Latin East. Issues of identity, patronage, papal policy, the missionary activities of the Latin religious orders and the reactions and responses of the Byzantines are also re-considered, offering fresh insights into and a better understanding of the various manifestations of the interrelationship between the two ethnicities, confessions and cultures. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations PART I: TRACING THE LATIN IDENTITIES AND THE ROLE OF THE MENDICANTS Michalis Olympios, Architecture, Use of Space, and Ornament in the Mendicant Churches of Latin Greece: An Overview Vicky Foskolou, Reflections of Mendicant Spirituality in the Monumental Painting of Crete in the Late Medieval Period (13th-15th centuries) Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis, Art, Identity, and the Franciscans in Crete Ioanna Bitha and Anna-Maria Kasdagli, Saint George 'of the English': Byzantine and Western Encounters in a Chapel of the Fortifications of Rhodes Dimitris Kountouras, Western Music and Poetry at the Kingdom of Thessalonica: Music and Historiography of the Fourth Crusade PART II: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND MUTUAL APPROACHES: THE EVIDENCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND MATERIAL CULTURE Olga Gratziou, Imported Projects, Local Skills, and the Emergence of a 'Cretan Gothic' Anastasia Vassiliou, Glazed Pottery in Late Medieval Morea (13th-15th Centuries): Cross-Cultural Tableware with Multiple Connotations Maria Michailidou, Pottery Finds in the Medieval Town of Rhodes (1204?1522): Insights on a Multicultural, Cosmopolitan Society Eleni Barmparitsa, Dress Accessories and Sartorial Trends in the Principality of Achaia (1205-1428): Evidence from the Frankish Castles of Chlemoutsi and Glarentza PART III: CULTURAL INTERACTIONS AND BYZANTINE RESPONSES: THE EVIDENCE OF ARCHITECTURE, MURALS, AND ICON PAINTING Michalis Kappas, Cultural Interactions between East and West: The Testimony of Three Orthodox Monasteries in Thirteenth-Century Frankish Messenia Aspasia Louvi-Kizi, Politics of Equilibrium: Gothic Architectural Features at Mystras (1361-71), Cypriot Models, and the Role of Isabelle de Lusignan Nikolaos Mastrochristos and Angeliki Katsioti, Reconstructing the Artistic Landscape of Rhodes in the Fifteenth Century: The Evidence of Painting from Lindos Konstantia Kefala, Permeable Boundaries of Artistic Identity: The Origin of a Fifteenth-Century Annunciation Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Preaching, the Role of the Apostles, and the Evidence of Iconography in East and West: Byzantine Responses to the 'Challenges' from the Latin Church after 1204 Notes on Contributors Index‎

‎The Arts of making in ancient Egypt. Voices, images, and objects of material producers 2000–1550 BC.‎

‎<p>This book provides an innovative analysis of the conditions of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship in the light of the archaeology of production, linguistic analysis, visual representation and ethnographic research. During the past decades, the “imaginative” figure of ancient Egyptian material producers has moved from “workers” to “artisans” and, most recently, to “artists”. In a search for a fuller understanding of the pragmatics of material production in past societies, and moving away from a series of modern preconceptions, this volume aims to analyse the mechanisms of material production in Egypt during the Middle Bronze Age (2000–1550 BC), to approach the profile of ancient Egyptian craftsmen through their own words, images and artefacts, and to trace possible modes of circulation of ideas among craftsmen in material production. The studies in the volume address the mechanisms of ancient production in Middle Bronze Age Egypt, the circulation of ideas among craftsmen, and the profiles of the people involved, based on the material traces, including depictions and writings, the ancient craftsmen themselves left and produced. </p> Leiden, 2018 Side 283 p., broché. 18 x 26‎

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‎Material'naya kul'tura kazanskikh tatar. In Russian /Material culture of Kaza...‎

‎Short description: In Russian. Vorobyov, Nikolai Iosifovich. Material culture of Kazan Tatars. Kazan: House of Tattoo Culture and Academic Center of TNKP, 1930: type. Tatpolygraph. Material'naya kul'tura kazanskikh tatar. In Russian /Material culture of Kazan Tatars. The image is provided for reference only. It may reflect condition of one of the available copies or only help in identifying the edition. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKU9020460‎

‎Maternal Materialities. Objects, Rituals and Material Evidence of Medieval and Early Modern Childbirth‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 372 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:10 b/w, 61 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503605739.‎

‎Summary Although little is known of the process surrounding early modern childbirth, the lack of written testimonials and technical descriptions does not preclude the possibility of reconstructing the reality of this elusive space: drawing on the evidence of clothing, food, rites and customs, this collection of essays seeks to give tangible form to the experience of childbirth through the analysis of physical objects and rituals. An important addition to the literature of material culture and 'wordly goods', this collection of twenty-three essays from international scholars offers a novel approach to the study of pre- and early modern birth by extending its reach beyond the birthing event to include issues concerning the management of pregnancy and post-partum healing. Grouped into five broad areas, the essays explore the material advantages and disadvantages of motherhood, the food and objects present in the birthing room, the evidence and memorialization of death in childbirth, attitudes towards the pregnant body, the material culture of healing and the ritual items used during childbirth.‎