List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson
Part One: Material Flows
2. The Early Modern Fold: Pleated Media in Japan’s Encounter with
Europe
Kristopher Kersey
3. From Textile to Text: Cloth, Slavery, and the Archive in the
Dutch Atlantic
Carrie Anderson
4. Drawing Worlds in Smoke, Powder, and Fumes: Bodies and Trifles
in Il Tabacco, the Courtly Ballet Staged in Turin (1650)
Elisa Antonietta Daniele
5. From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat: Christian Art and Ambivalence
in Early Modern Japan
Benjamin Schmidt
6. Eggs, Cheese, and (Francis) Bacon
Helen Smith
Part Two: In-Between Spaces
7. The Cabinet and the World: Non-European Objects in Early Modern
European Collections
Daniela Bleichmar
8. Le Jeu du monde: Games, Maps, and World Conquest in Early Modern
France
Ting Chang
9. The World Contained in an Imperial Ottoman Album
Emine Fetvaci
10. World Building, the Folger Folios, and the University of
British Columbia
Patricia Badir
Part Three: Other Worlds
11. Ascetic Ecology: Landscape of a Desert Saint
Lyle Massey
12. The End of All: Worldliness, Piety, and the Social Life of Maps
in the Post-Reformation English Household
Gavin Hollis
13. Enlightenment Cosmology: A Medialogical Interpretation
J.B. Shank
14. Masked Alliances: Global Politics and Economy in the Art and
Performance Rituals of Mexico’s Indigenous People
John M.D. Pohl and Danny Zborover
15. Unease with the Exotic: Ambiguous Responses to Chinese Material
Culture in the Dutch Republic
Thijs Weststeijn
Contributors
Index
Angela Vanhaelen is a professor of art history at McGill University.
Bronwen Wilson is the Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Memorial Clark Library at UCLA.
"The essays in this impressive volume focus our attention on the
'in-between spaces' of the global early modern, where differing
vantage points came into contact and jostled against one another.
By emphasizing how these spaces were negotiated through the lives
of things such as folding fans, eggs, and board games, they show
how early modernity, even as it resulted in the destruction of many
societies, initiated a creative process of world-making."--Michael
Gaudio, Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota
"Breathtaking in scope, Making Worlds opens onto the vast web of
global connectivity that comes into view when new questions are
raised about the local specificity of early modern artefacts,
texts, objects, images, and practices. This collection offers a
geographically expansive, methodologically wide-ranging, and
materially diverse assemblage of beautifully conceived
interdisciplinary studies that constitute an important and timely
pivot in early modern scholarship toward mundialization. There is
something here for humanists of all stripes who will discover
connections within and across the chapters that challenge
disciplinary silos." --Marjorie Rubright, Associate Professor of
English and Director of the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary
Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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