
The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective blog
The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective presents here its most recent discussions about the interplay between bodies, emotions, objects and materials in past and present societies, in research and teaching. Stay tuned for exciting blog posts and announcements.

New Directions in the History of the Body – Holly Fletcher in Conversation with Ulinka Rublack
Ulinka Rublack is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. She has published widely on sixteenth and seventeenth-century culture, including pioneering publications on early modern material culture,...

Astley Hall Virtual Tour
The author of this blog entry is Dr Abigail Greenall, Early Career Research Fellow at The John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester.For some years now, Sasha Handley and I have shared a fairly healthy obsession with apotropaic, or evil averting, burn...

Society for Renaissance Studies Book Launch: Narrating the Dragoman’s Self in the Veneto-Ottoman Balkans, c. 1550-1650 (Recording)
This online book launch has been hosted by The Society for Renaissance Studies, November 14, 2023, 2:30 pm, to celebrate the publication of Stefan Hanß’s new book, Narrating the Dragoman’s Self in the Veneto-Ottoman Balkans, c. 1550–1650 (Routledge) with James...

CfP: Empire and the Affective Archive: Understanding Bureaucracy, Emotion, and Activism in Records of the Colonial Object
This is a call for PGR, Post Doc, and ECR applications.As part of this year's CIDRAL programme dedicated to the theme of 'Archives' a group of academics in SALC and UoM's cultural institutions have received funding to develop three one-day workshops on intersecting...

German History Article Prize 2023 for Stefan Hanß’s article on early modern working women and female consumption
Congratulations to Professor Stefan Hanß who has just been awarded the German History Article Prize 2023 for his recent article ‘Gendering the Material Renaissance: Women, Industriousness and the Female Body at the Court of Württemberg’.The Prize is awarded by The...

Society for Renaissance Studies Book Launch: Narrating the Dragoman’s Self in the Veneto-Ottoman Balkans, c. 1550-1650
Join us celebrating the publication of Stefan Hanß's new book, Narrating the Dragoman’s Self in the Veneto-Ottoman Balkans, c. 1550–1650 (Routledge) with James Amelang (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Alex Bamji (University of Leeds), Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young...

The Oak
This is a guest blog entry of Georgina Watson, a final-year PhD student at Manchester working on early modern Mediterranean commercial, military and religious interaction between Tuscany and the Ottoman Empire. In focusing on various members of the Tuscan Order of...

The Manchester Material Culture Lab
The Manchester Material Culture Lab—a reading group of Manchester-based researchers interested in material culture studies—is back. These meetings shall engender a dialogue between the disciplines studying material culture in Manchester. We also run work-in-progress...

Whitworth Conservation Work with the Collective’s Collection of Digital Microscopes
The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective holds a substantial number of digital microscopes that are administered by Professor Stefan Hanß. These microscopes are used by various members of the Collective, in particular PhD students and Early as well as...

Women, Labour and Embodiment in the Material Renaissance: Interview with Laura Gowing, Stefan Hanß and Beverly Lemire
This interview discusses the labour and skills of early modern working women. Laura Gowing and Beverly Lemire have asked Stefan Hanß to further elaborate on‘Gendering the Material Renaissance: Women, Industriousness and the Female Body at the Court of Württemberg’—an...
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