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Early modern central and eastern Europe was tightly interlaced with communities and trading networks both within and beyond the region. Studying its material aspects, from the landscape to luxury objects and everyday amuletic items reveals how we might start to resituate this region in wider narratives of early modern history. This paper takes chalcedony as its starting point and traces it from the mountains of Bohemia to Kunstkammern and burgher houses to begin to tell a story of the region decentred from national narratives.
Dr Suzanna Ivanič is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Kent. Focusing on Central and Eastern Europe, Suzanna’s broad research interests span religion, material and visual culture, and travel. Her monograph Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern Prague (Oxford University Press, 2021) won the Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize in 2022. In 2021-2023, she is Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded research network, ‘The Connected World of Central Europe, 1500-1700’, examining connections across and beyond Central Europe through objects.
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- Dr Suzanna Ivanič
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- CEMS
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