This article gives an overview of the Local Gazetteers Research Tools (LoGaRT), including its dev... more This article gives an overview of the Local Gazetteers Research Tools (LoGaRT), including its development, technical features, methodology, and examples of research applications by members of the Tu 圖 working group. The use of LoGaRT is illustrated with four brief introductions to projects that draw on visual materials from the local gazetteers, including ritual-related illustrations, city layout maps, and maps with western cartographic features. See the websites for more detailed information on LoGaRT and other research projects using it.1
Until quite recently, the field of early modern history largely focused on Europe. The overarchin... more Until quite recently, the field of early modern history largely focused on Europe. The overarching narrative of the early modern world began with the European " discoveries, " proceeded to European expansion overseas, and ended with an exploration of the factors that led to the " triumph of Europe. " When the Journal of Early Modern History was established in 1997, the centrality of Europe in the emergence of early modern forms of capitalism continued to be a widely held assumption. Much has changed in the last twenty years, including the recognition of the significance of consumption in different parts of the early modern world, the spatial turn, the emergence of global history, and the shift from the study of trade to the commodities themselves. Keywords Long-distance trade – material culture – the spatial turn – gift-giving – food history
This essay is based on the notion that the early modern world was shaped by connections that stre... more This essay is based on the notion that the early modern world was shaped by connections that stretched across geographical, political and cultural boundaries. The mobility of early modern people, ideas and things, and the networks they created and relied on, facilitated flows of material and immaterial interactions. Within that early modern connected world, material culture played a key role. Goods ranging from treasured, unique objects to commodities traded in vast quantities always accumulate layers of meanings as they move through time and space. By looking at a number of things in circulation in the early modern Netherlands, we can identify them as both ‘global’, in the sense of having travelled across long distances, having accumulated associations with the exotic, and as ‘local’, part of the cultural practices we have come to think of as Dutch. Methodologically, this essay combines a close reading of the idealized representations of things in domestic spaces we encounter in paintings with an analysis of the materiality, design and historical trajectories of the things themselves. Tracing global and local aspects of design as it appears in idealized representations and in early modern Dutch historical objects, I argue that embodied experiences play key roles in the domestication of goods from overseas. I seek to show that through vision and touch, and the proximity of objects to bodies in domestic environments, goods from all over the world become part of the material culture of the seventeenth-century Netherlands. As exotic goods and materials become part of the domestic environment, global goods gain local meanings, and simultaneously bestow new layers of meaning on the material culture of the early modern Netherlands.
This paper offers a re-evaluation of the significance of porcelain during the Yuan dynasty by ana... more This paper offers a re-evaluation of the significance of porcelain during the Yuan dynasty by analyzing a type of ceramics known as luanbai or shufu wares. These matt white porcelains, sometimes inscribed with the characters shu and fu, have generally been seen as official wares, manufactured on the orders of the highest echelons of the Yuan central government and classified as high-quality luxury wares associated with the imperial court. This paper proposes that this conventional interpretation is misleading. Instead of understanding luanbai wares as part of the narrative of ceramics manufacture and the history of porcelain, I explore their relevance by situating them in the context of Yuan-dynasty material culture more broadly, court-sponsored craft manufactures, and the practice of inscribing objects. This approach reveals a different story, highlighting the absence of court control over ceramic production, the ensuing freedom to experiment locally with new ceramic production methods, and the significance of the demands of consumers in territories outside Yuan China.
This article gives an overview of the Local Gazetteers Research Tools (LoGaRT), including its dev... more This article gives an overview of the Local Gazetteers Research Tools (LoGaRT), including its development, technical features, methodology, and examples of research applications by members of the Tu 圖 working group. The use of LoGaRT is illustrated with four brief introductions to projects that draw on visual materials from the local gazetteers, including ritual-related illustrations, city layout maps, and maps with western cartographic features. See the websites for more detailed information on LoGaRT and other research projects using it.1
Until quite recently, the field of early modern history largely focused on Europe. The overarchin... more Until quite recently, the field of early modern history largely focused on Europe. The overarching narrative of the early modern world began with the European " discoveries, " proceeded to European expansion overseas, and ended with an exploration of the factors that led to the " triumph of Europe. " When the Journal of Early Modern History was established in 1997, the centrality of Europe in the emergence of early modern forms of capitalism continued to be a widely held assumption. Much has changed in the last twenty years, including the recognition of the significance of consumption in different parts of the early modern world, the spatial turn, the emergence of global history, and the shift from the study of trade to the commodities themselves. Keywords Long-distance trade – material culture – the spatial turn – gift-giving – food history
This essay is based on the notion that the early modern world was shaped by connections that stre... more This essay is based on the notion that the early modern world was shaped by connections that stretched across geographical, political and cultural boundaries. The mobility of early modern people, ideas and things, and the networks they created and relied on, facilitated flows of material and immaterial interactions. Within that early modern connected world, material culture played a key role. Goods ranging from treasured, unique objects to commodities traded in vast quantities always accumulate layers of meanings as they move through time and space. By looking at a number of things in circulation in the early modern Netherlands, we can identify them as both ‘global’, in the sense of having travelled across long distances, having accumulated associations with the exotic, and as ‘local’, part of the cultural practices we have come to think of as Dutch. Methodologically, this essay combines a close reading of the idealized representations of things in domestic spaces we encounter in paintings with an analysis of the materiality, design and historical trajectories of the things themselves. Tracing global and local aspects of design as it appears in idealized representations and in early modern Dutch historical objects, I argue that embodied experiences play key roles in the domestication of goods from overseas. I seek to show that through vision and touch, and the proximity of objects to bodies in domestic environments, goods from all over the world become part of the material culture of the seventeenth-century Netherlands. As exotic goods and materials become part of the domestic environment, global goods gain local meanings, and simultaneously bestow new layers of meaning on the material culture of the early modern Netherlands.
This paper offers a re-evaluation of the significance of porcelain during the Yuan dynasty by ana... more This paper offers a re-evaluation of the significance of porcelain during the Yuan dynasty by analyzing a type of ceramics known as luanbai or shufu wares. These matt white porcelains, sometimes inscribed with the characters shu and fu, have generally been seen as official wares, manufactured on the orders of the highest echelons of the Yuan central government and classified as high-quality luxury wares associated with the imperial court. This paper proposes that this conventional interpretation is misleading. Instead of understanding luanbai wares as part of the narrative of ceramics manufacture and the history of porcelain, I explore their relevance by situating them in the context of Yuan-dynasty material culture more broadly, court-sponsored craft manufactures, and the practice of inscribing objects. This approach reveals a different story, highlighting the absence of court control over ceramic production, the ensuing freedom to experiment locally with new ceramic production methods, and the significance of the demands of consumers in territories outside Yuan China.
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Cora Würmell, A Passion for Porcelain. Eva Ströber at the Porzellansammlung Dresden, p... more Contents:
Cora Würmell, A Passion for Porcelain. Eva Ströber at the Porzellansammlung Dresden, p. 8-15 Christiaan J. A. Jörg, A Beaker of Transitional Porcelain. The first Chine de Commande for the Dutch?, p. 16-21 Rose Kerr, The Countess and her Chinese Lions, p. 22-29 Anne Gerritsen, Flower Arrangement etc.’, p. 30-37 Eline van den Berg, The Intimate Charm of Ceramics, p.38-43 Adriana Proser, Antiquarianism, Longevity Characters, and the Decorative Arts in China, p. 44-49 Jan van Campen, Porcelain, the City Maiden of Amsterdam and Amalia van Solms, p. 50-57 Menno Fitski, ‘D’une Beauté Enchantée’. Private trade and Kakiemon porcelain, p. 58-61 Anna Grasskamp and Wen-ting Wu, We Call Them Ginger Jars. European re-framings of Chinese ceramic containers, p. 62-73 Sebastiaan Ostkamp, An ‘Imperial’ Dish with a Minyao Decoration, p. 74-81 Nederlandse samenvattingen, p. 82-90
This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and genera... more This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a ‘micro-spatial’ approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources and awareness of the historical discontinuities and unevennesses characterizes the global history that emerges here. We use labour as our lens in this volume. The resulting micro-spatial history of labour addresses the management and recruitment of labour, its voluntary and coerced spatial mobility, its political perception and representation and the workers’ own agency and social networks. The individual chapters are written by contributors whose expertise covers the late medieval Eastern Mediterranean to present-day Sierra Leone, through early modern China and Italy, eighteenth-century Cuba and the Malvinas/Falklands, the journeys of a missionary between India and Brazil and those of Christian captives across the Ottoman empire and Spain. The result is a highly readable volume that addresses key theoretical and methodological questions in historiography.
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Cora Würmell, A Passion for Porcelain. Eva Ströber at the Porzellansammlung Dresden, p. 8-15
Christiaan J. A. Jörg, A Beaker of Transitional Porcelain. The first Chine de Commande for the Dutch?, p. 16-21
Rose Kerr, The Countess and her Chinese Lions, p. 22-29
Anne Gerritsen, Flower Arrangement etc.’, p. 30-37
Eline van den Berg, The Intimate Charm of Ceramics, p.38-43
Adriana Proser, Antiquarianism, Longevity Characters, and the Decorative Arts in China, p. 44-49
Jan van Campen, Porcelain, the City Maiden of Amsterdam and Amalia van Solms, p. 50-57
Menno Fitski, ‘D’une Beauté Enchantée’. Private trade and Kakiemon porcelain, p. 58-61
Anna Grasskamp and Wen-ting Wu, We Call Them Ginger Jars. European re-framings of Chinese ceramic containers, p. 62-73
Sebastiaan Ostkamp, An ‘Imperial’ Dish with a Minyao Decoration, p. 74-81
Nederlandse samenvattingen, p. 82-90