Conférence : Leah R. Clark, « Mobile Things/Mobile Motifs: Transcultural Objects Across the Mediterranean », Oxford, University of Oxford, 16 janvier 2024
Tuesday 16 January, 4:30pm St Edmund Hall, Doctorow Room (note different location) Long established trade routes and diplomatic exchanges resulted in a dizzying effect of transfer and imitation of motifs and objects between Italy and the Islamic world in early modernity. Inventories, ambassador reports, letters, and humanist texts indicate how descriptions of objects from ‘somewhere else’ might be pointing to mobility itself as a category of value, which places emphasis on circulation and exchange rather...