Affiliation:
1. Cambridge University, St John’s College
Abstract
This article analyses feather-work as central material in the culture of a German
court around 1600. Materials afforded meanings, invited specific practices,
and thus became agents that “enmeshed” an audience to endorse new social,
economic, and political norms. They formed part of an affective culture and
habitus, reproduced in similar spaces and atmospheres. Feathers could be part of
specific emotional styles and embodied practices. Their appreciation intertwined
with specific collecting and media strategies as well as the encounter of the
Americas. Artefacts fostered emotional communication and aimed at affective
transformation in performances such as those at the Württemberg court. They
strongly appealed to tactile sensory engagement as much as to vision as modes
of perception.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Cited by
2 articles.
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