Silver

Transformational Matter

Helen Hills (Professor Emerita, Professor Emerita, University of York)

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Oxford University Press
15 February 2024

History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Precious metal & precious stones: artworks & design; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

Series: Proceedings of the British Academy

Silver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersection of forces and dynamics ED philosophical, religious, material, telluric, economic, colonialist, social, cultural, and courtly ED that traversed and profoundly altered the world. Silver from the so-called 'New World' bankrolled and justified the Spanish monarchy in its landgrab, wars, and empire building in both the Americas and in Europe. The great mountain of fabulously rich silver, Cerro Ricco in Potosí, relentlessly exploited by the Spanish invaders from 1545, irrevocably changed power relations, empires, and entire social and environmental ecologies across the globe. Accelerating global commerce and the growth of capitalism, trade in silver intensified the accumulation of capital and uneven trade balances, and enhanced the wealth of northern Europe at the expense of the Global South, particularly of Latin America. This wealth helped jump start the Industrial Revolution a century later.

Silver: Transformational Matter draws together essays by leading anthropologists, art historians, and historians to rethink silver across diverse fields and bring into context mining, trade, the Spanish empire and colonialism, Indigenous expertise, high-end Islamic and European silver artifacts, philosophical and alchemical erudition, and the shimmer of silver in textiles and moonlight. The emphasis in this collection is on early modern silver (ca.1545-ca.1700), since that was the crux and highpoint of its economic, artistic, and colonialist triumph, but any notion of a homogeneous historical 'period' is strongly resisted. Time and place were splintered by silver, as well as brought into relation by it.

Edited by: Helen Hills (Professor Emerita Professor Emerita University of York)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 259
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 734g
ISBN: 9780197267547
ISBN 10: 0197267548
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Helen Hills is Professor Emerita at the University of York, where she became the first woman Professor of History of Art in 2008. She has published widely on Italian baroque art and architecture, gender and architecture, and has particular interests in the inter-relationships amongst religious practices, architecture, social class, gender, and sexuality. Her work seeks to push the boundaries of the discipline.