Artifacts : how we think and write about found objects /

The book is a study of the artifacts that antiquarians (a.k.a. antiquaries) collected in the long eighteenth century. The author considers what objects drew their attention and how they interpreted and wrote about them, in politically charged ways and not with pure historical objectivity as they cla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lake, Crystal B. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Antiquities > Collectors and collecting > History > 18th century. Archaeology > Political aspects > History > 18th century. Antiquarians > 18th century.

Table of Contents:

Prologue. Things speaking for themselves
Leaving room to guess
Ten thousand gimcracks
Coins : the most vocal monuments
Manuscripts : burnt to a crust
Weapons : a wilderness of arms
Grave goods : the kings' four bodies
Afterword. The artifactual form.