xiii, 276 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Introduction : transformative materiality and Renaissance dynamics / Jennifer Linhart Wood -- Objects within/ without the body -- "Farre fetched and deare bought" : the global cosmetic exchange between Elizabeth I, Melike Safiye Sultan, and the Kira Esperanza Malchi / Josie Schoel -- Comb poems / Erika Mary Boeckeler -- Variable vestments and clothing conversions : piecing out the past in Tudor Exeter / Naomi Howell -- Networking objects -- Bird-people, utopias, Arte plumaria : the influence of Native American feathers on Renaissance literature and culture / Edward McLean Test -- Needlework patterns on the move : traveling toward (re)incarnation / Anna Riehl Bertolet -- "Whose least part crackt, the whole does fly" : the explosive case of Prince Rupert's drops / Abbie Weinberg -- Staging properties -- Traveling music and theatrics : Jemmy LaRoche's "Raree show" / Sarah F. Williams -- Protean objects in William Percy's The aphrodysial or sea-feast / Maria Shmygol -- "I'll drown my book" : Prospero's Grimoire, adrift / Emily E. F. Philbrick
Summary:
"Investigates the life histories of Renaissance objects as they experience transformations, and demonstrates these objects' dynamic potential to transform their environments and others as they journey through time and space"-- Provided by publisher