Global Gold: Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

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Thomas B. F. Cummins Abigail Krasner Balbale

Global Gold

Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

Thomas B. F. Cummins, Abigail Krasner Balbale, Suzanne Preston Blier , Chiara Crisciani

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Harvard University Press
19 August 2024

History of Art & Design Styles; General & world history; Monetary economics

Series: I Tatti Research Series

Gold as a material and gold as a value becomes a truly universal equivalent in the early modern world as global economies begin to emerge after 1492. The essays in Global Gold present both the aesthetic and economic conditions that immediately precede the emergence of this global commerce as well as the immediate and various consequences of those interactions. Through interdisciplinary essays by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art history, the differences and commonalities of gold's monetary, economic, and aesthetic roles are explored within the crucible of a unique historical period of transition, conquest, and the exploitation of natural and human resources.

Contributions by: Abigail Krasner Balbale, Suzanne Preston Blier, Chiara Crisciani, Anne Dunlop
Edited by: Thomas B. F. Cummins
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 171mm,
ISBN: 9780674296176
ISBN 10: 0674296176
Series: I Tatti Research Series
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 19 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas B. F. Cummins is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art at Harvard University and Director of Dumbarton Oaks. Abigail Krasner Balbale is Assistant Professor, Cultural History of the Islamic World, Bard Graduate Center. Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Anne Dunlop is Professor of Art History and Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne. Her prizewinning publications include Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy; The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, c. 1250–1750; and Antipodean Early Modern: European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200–1600.