Parution : Sarah Bendall et Serena Dyer (dir.), “Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe”, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2024
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, experimenting, experiencing, and reconstructing illuminate early modern assumptions and understandings around manual labour and material life. Answers can be gleaned through both recapturing past skills and knowledge of making and by reconstructing past bodies and bodily experiences using recreative and experimental approaches.
In drawing attention to the body, this collection underlines the importance of embodied knowledge and sensory experiences associated with the making practices of historically marginalised groups, such as craftspeople, women, and those who were colonised, to confront biases in the written archive. The history of making is found not only in the technological and economic innovations which drove ‘progress’ but also in the hands, minds, and creations of makers themselves.
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Fiammetta Campagnoli (1 juillet 2024). Parution : Sarah Bendall et Serena Dyer (dir.), “Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe”, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2024. Collectif d'Historiens de l'Art de la Renaissance. Consulté le 12 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13fcv



