Global Gold :Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World - I Tatti Research Series

Global Gold

Global Gold :Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World - I Tatti Research Series

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Gold as a material and gold as a value becomes a truly universal equivalent in the early modern world as global economies begin to emerge after 1492. The essays in Global Gold present both the aesthetic and economic conditions that immediately precede the emergence of this global commerce as well as the immediate and various consequences of those interactions. Through interdisciplinary essays by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art history, the differences and commonalities of gold’s monetary, economic, and aesthetic roles are explored within the crucible of a unique historical period of transition, conquest, and the exploitation of natural and human resources.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780674296176
ISBN10 0674296176
Number Of Pages 200
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Harvard University Press
Format paperback
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This richly illustrated collection of essays makes a significant contribution to the ‘material turn’ in cultural history and speaks to scholars and students across various disciplines. -- Matteo Soranzo * Renaissance and Reformation *
Explores the importance of gold in different and diverse societies from generally the fourteenth to the sixteenth century…a great contribution on the regional and global importance of gold at that time. -- Iván Rivero Hernández * Hispanic American Historical Review *

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Author's Bio

Thomas B. F. Cummins is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art at Harvard University and Director of Dumbarton Oaks. Abigail Krasner Balbale is Assistant Professor, Cultural History of the Islamic World, Bard Graduate Center. Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Anne Dunlop is Professor of Art History and Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne. Her prizewinning publications include Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy; The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, c. 1250–1750; and Antipodean Early Modern: European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200–1600.

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