Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
About the Book Series
A forum for innovative research on the role of images and objects in the late medieval and early modern periods, Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 publishes monographs and essay collections that combine rigorous investigation with critical inquiry to present new narratives on a wide range of topics, from traditional arts to seemingly ordinary things. Recognizing the fluidity of images, objects, and ideas, this series fosters cross-cultural as well as multi-disciplinary exploration. We consider proposals from across the spectrum of analytic approaches and methodologies.
At Home in the Early Modern Dutch Dollhouse: Gender, Materiality, and Collecting in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Netherlands
1st Edition
By Michelle Moseley-Christian
October 14, 2026
Dollhouses were a notable outlet for women in the Netherlands as collectors during the 17th and 18th centuries. This book explores the material culture of the dollhouses as displays, shedding light on new concepts of domesticity, the reception of household goods, and the agency of female collectors...
Albrecht Dürer in Colour: Hand Colouring and the Ontology of Print
1st Edition
By Julia R. Smith
October 09, 2026
This book explores the fascinating and often overlooked practice of hand colouring in the works of one of history’s most celebrated printmakers. While Dürer is widely credited with liberating the printed image from its reliance on hand colouring in the fifteenth century, this book reveals how the ...
Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794: Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages
1st Edition
By Sarah Joan Moran
August 24, 2026
This book examines the Court Beguinages, a fascinating group of semi-monastic female communities that were endemic to cities of the Southern Low Countries from the thirteenth century into the twentieth. Their members, called Beguines, played fundamental social and religious roles in their ...
The Material and Emotional Worlds of Albrecht Dürer’s Nuremberg
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer Spinks, Sasha Handley, Charles Zika
August 18, 2026
The Material and Emotional Worlds of Albrecht Dürer’s Nuremberg explores the life, work, and artistic creativity of Albrecht Dürer within the vibrant cultural, economic, and material world of Nuremberg around 1500, offering fresh interdisciplinary insights into the objects, emotions, and ...
Portraiture and Mnemonics in Early Modern Italy: Connecting and Remembering
1st Edition
By Rebecca M. Howard
July 31, 2026
This book explores how certain early modern Italian portraits sought to directly engage the minds and memories of their viewers. Analyzing portraits made between the mid-Quattrocento and the mid-Cinquecento and by artists largely trained and working in the central and northern Italian peninsula, ...
Gender and the Glove in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By James Daybell, Susan Broomhall
July 29, 2026
This book explores how gloves shaped and reflected gender relations in early modern society. By examining the cultural, economic, and political significance of gloves, it reveals how these everyday objects both reinforced and challenged gender ideologies of the time. The study demonstrates that ...
Beuckelaer and the Art of Dining: Northern Painting, Food, and Social Class in Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Claudia Goldstein
June 10, 2026
Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer produced dozens of large-scale paintings of contemporary working women and men selling, presenting, and preparing a visually stunning array of foodstuffs for the viewer. These were new subjects in Antwerp and even newer in Italy, where elite ...
Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, and Material Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah A. Bendall, Serena Dyer
June 10, 2026
Processes of making in early modern Europe were both tacit and embodied. Whether making pottery, food, or textiles, the processes of manual production rested on an intersensory connection between mind, body, and object. This volume focuses on the body of the maker to ask how processes of making, ...
Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print: Art, Archaeology, and the Style All’Antica in Early Modern Augsburg
1st Edition
By Rachel Carlisle
June 10, 2026
Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print: Art, Archaeology, and the Style All'antica in Early Modern Augsburg examines the central role of print to local antiquarian pursuits and generation of a style all'antica in early sixteenth-century Augsburg, Germany. Working in the shadow of Holy Roman...
Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Cordelia Warr
June 10, 2026
This book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics. Echoing, and to a certain extent recreating, the wounds and pain inflicted on Christ during his passion, stigmata ...
The Frescoed Façade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture
1st Edition
By Alexis Culotta
June 10, 2026
This book examines Roman façades decorated with fresco and sgraffito between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that once enveloped the central rioni of Rome within a web of symbolic social, political, and familial allegiances that transformed a street-side stroll into a visually engaging ...
Thinking Women and Art in the Long Eighteenth Century: Strategic Reinterpretations
1st Edition
Edited
By Mechthild Fend, Jennifer Germann, Melissa Hyde
June 10, 2026
Thinking Women represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century French and British art and visual culture. Topics range from women and their activities in art and science, to gendered representations of childhood and animals to fashion, femininity and temporality....