By starting with a focus on past objects, this volume brings together essays from art historians, historians, archaeologists, literary scholars and museum curators to reveal the different disciplinary approaches and methods taken to the study of objects and what this can reveal about transformations in material culture 1000-1700.

List of illustrations Introduction: The Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700 Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark Part I: Thresholds and Boundaries Introduction Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark 1 A Prehistory of Movement: Tracking Object Mobility Around the Viking-Age North Sea Alison M. Leonard and Steven P. Ashby 2 Characterising Transformation in Religious Material Culture AD 1000-1700: Through the Study of Archaeological Small Finds Discovered by the Public in England and Wales Michael Lewis 3 Crossing Boundaries with Pilgrim Badges Robert Maniura 4 Crossing Thresholds and Creating Boundaries: A Cultural Itinerary of Chests in Late Medieval England Sarah Hinds 5 The Mobility of Objects Across Time and Space: Chests in Renaissance Italian and German Bridal Trousseaux (Fourteenth-Fifteenth Centuries) Christina Antenhofer Part II: Framing and Translation Introduction Katherine A. Wilson and Leah R. Clark 6 Jan van Eyck’s Syrian Apothecary Jar: The Earliest Known Depiction of Middle Eastern Ceramics in Medieval European Art Alexandra van Dongen 7 Wandering Things and the Human/Object Boundary: A Literary Approach Bettina Bildhauer 8 Uncovering Daily Life in the Archive? Framing Domestic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Bruges Inventories Julie De Groot 9 Objects in Time: The Affective Power of a Prie-Dieu in Seventeenth-Century France Jennifer Hillman 10 Crossing Borders: The Hidden Life of a Manuscript Letter Ruth Whelan 11 The Black-lead of Borrowdale, 1500-1750: An Object History of a Mutable Material Christopher Donaldson 12 Why do Some Things Become More Mobile, 1000-1700? Thomas Pickles Bibliography Index