2 The Early Modern Fold: Pleated Media

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1 Introduction 1
6. Part I: Material Flows
7. 2 The Early Modern Fold: Pleated Media 25
8. 3 From Textile to Text: Cloth, Slavery, and the Archive in the Dutch Atlantic 58
9. 4 Drawing Worlds: Bodies and Smoke in the Courtly Ballet Il Tabacco (1650) 85
10. 5 From Hot Reverence to Cold Sweat: Christian Art and Ambivalence in Early Modern Japan 110
11. 6 Eggs, Cheese, and (Francis) Bacon 140
12. Part II: In-Between Spaces
13. 7 The Production of Imprecision: Reframing Non-European Objects in Early Modern European Collections 169
14. 8 Le Jeu du monde : Games, Maps, and World Conquest in Early Modern France 201
15. 9 The World Contained in an Imperial Ottoman Album 237
16. 10 World Building, the Folger Folios, and the University of British Columbia 272
17. 11 Ascetic Ecology: Landscape of a Desert Saint 301
18. 12 The End of All: Worldliness, Piety, and the Social Life of Maps in the Post-Reformation English Household 332
19. 13 Enlightenment Cosmology: A Medialogical Interpretation 365
20. 14 Masked Alliances: Global Politics and Economy in the Art and Performance Rituals of Mexico’s Indigenous People 406
21. 15 Unease with the Exotic: Ambiguous Responses to Chinese Material Culture in the Dutch Republic 436
22. Contributors 477
23. Index 481