Special issue of Textile History: Ways of Seeing Early Modern Decorative Textiles
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 20971
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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https://kar.kent.ac.uk/51355/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The special issue is the major research output from the AHRC network grant, ‘Ways of Seeing the English Domestic Interior, 1500-1700’, for which Richardson was PI (2012-13). The first interdisciplinary project to investigate the visual impact of this vital early modern space, it enabled collaborations between museum and heritage professionals and scholars in the humanities and sciences. It focussed in particular on decorative textiles with figurative imagery, because these objects raise particular questions about the dynamics of perception between interiors’ narrative (reading, iconography), visual (form, colour) and material (texture, surface) qualities. The findings influenced the presentation of historic properties at the Weald and Downland Living Museum and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
The special issue presents those findings, including the interdisciplinary method which was developed through extensive workshopping of innovative applications of technology in museum and heritage settings, practice research investigations of the impact of objects in domestic space, and rigorous debate around the range and interrelationship of humanities and scientific method. It explores methods of reading early modern things which span text, image and texture, in order to address the dissemination of moral precepts and religious and secular learning in a period before widespread literacy.
As PI, Richardson selected the network participants, and from them the contributors to the special issue, and organised the form and balance of approaches in the various contributions; she edited all essays. She was responsible for the conception of the introduction and 80% of the writing, and for the writing of 25% of the interdisciplinary essay on eye-tracking.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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