Artifacts : How We Think and Write about Found Objects /

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"The book is a study of the artifacts that antiquarians (a.k.a. antiquaries) collected in the long eighteenth century. The author considers what objects drew their attention and how they interpreted and wrote about them--in politically charged ways and not with pure historical objectivity as th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lake, Crystal B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Archaeology > Political aspects.
Antiquities > Collectors and collecting.
Antiquarians.
Specialistes d'histoire ancienne > 18e siecle.
Archeologie > Aspect politique > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Antiquarians > 18th century.
Archaeology > Political aspects > History > 18th century.
Antiquities > Collectors and collecting > History > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. Things speaking for themselves
  • Leaving room to guess
  • Ten thousand gimcracks
  • Coins : the most vocal monuments
  • Manuscripts : burnt to a crust
  • Weapons : a wilderness of arms
  • Grave goods : the kings' four bodies
  • Afterword. The artifactual form.

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