Hills, Helen
(ed.)
Editorial: Oxford University Press
Colección: Proceedings of the British Academy
Número de páginas: 288 págs. 23.4 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 21-12-2023
EAN: 9780197267547
ISBN: 978-0-19-726754-7
Precio (sin IVA): 120,35 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 125,16 €
This book draws together essays by leading anthropologists, art historians, and historians to rethink silver across diverse fields and bring into context mining, trade, the Spanish empire and colonialism, Indigenous expertise, high-end Islamic and European silver artifacts, philosophical and alchemical erudition, and the shimmer of silver in textiles and moonlight. The emphasis in this collection is on early modern silver (ca.1545-ca.1700), since that was the crux and highpoint of its economic, artistic, and colonialist triumph, but any notion of a homogeneous historical 'period' is strongly resisted.