Tales Things Tell

Material Histories of Early Globalisms

Finbarr Barry Flood, Beate Fricke

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Princeton University Press
01 March 2024

Material culture

Tales Things Tell offers new perspectives on histories of connectivity between Africa, Asia and Europe in the period before the Mongol conquests of the thirteenth century. Reflected in objects and materials whose circulation and reception defined aesthetic, economic and technological networks that existed outside established political and sectarian boundaries, many of these histories are not documented in the written sources on which historians usually rely. Tales Things Tell charts bold new directions in art history, making a compelling case for the archival value of mobile artifacts and images in reconstructing the past.

In this beautifully illustrated book, Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke present six illuminating case studies from the sixth to the thirteenth centuries to show how portable objects mediated the mobility of concepts, iconographies, and techniques. The case studies range from metalwork to stone reliefs, manuscript paintings, and objects using natural materials such as coconut and rock crystal. Whether as booty, commodities, gifts, or souvenirs, many of the objects discussed in Tales Things Tell functioned as sources of aesthetic, iconographic, or technical knowledge in the lands in which they came to rest. Remapping the histories of exchange between medieval Islam and Christendom, from Europe to the Indian Ocean, Tales Things Tell ventures beyond standard narratives drawn from written archival records to demonstrate the value of objects and images as documents of early globalisms.

By: Finbarr Barry Flood, Beate Fricke
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 267mm, Width: 197mm,
ISBN: 9780691215150
ISBN 10: 0691215154
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Finbarr Barry Flood is director of Silsila: Center for Material Histories and the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities at New York University. His books include Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval “Hindu-Muslim” Encounter (Princeton). Beate Fricke is professor of medieval art at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Her books include Fallen Idols, Risen Saints: Sainte Foy of Conques and the Revival of Monumental Sculpture in Medieval Art.

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Tales Things Tell

Material Histories of Early Globalisms

Finbarr Barry Flood, Beate Fricke

$89.99

Hardback

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