Table of Contents
Introduction
Section 1
Material Agency
Professor Andrew Morrall (The Bard Graduate Centre, New York)
The Power of Nature and the Agency of Art. The Unicorn Cup of Jan Vermeyen
Dr Barbara Baert, Dr Hannah Iterbeke and Dr Lieve Watteeuw (KU Leuven)
Late Medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries. Mixed Media, Remnant Art,
Récyclage and Gender in the Low Countries (16th c. onwards)
Section 2
The Power of Things
Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto (University of York)
Knighted by the Apostle Himself: Political Fabrication and Chivalric Artifact in Compostela,1332
Dr Robert Maniura (Birkbeck, University of London)
Agency and Miraculous Images
Dr Peter Dent (University of Bristol)
Agency, Beauty and the Late Medieval Sculptural Encounter
Section 3
Objects as Social Agents
Dr Leah Clark (The Open University)
Dispersal, Exchange and the Culture of Things in Fifteenth-century Italy
Dr Alexander Lee (University of Warwick)
Michelangelo, Tommaso de’ Cavalieri and the Agency of the Gift-Drawing
Dr Jaya Remond (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Distributing Dürer in the Netherlands: Gifts, Prints, and the Mediation of Fame in the Early
Sixteenth Century
Section 4
Agency of Physical Manipulations
Professor Wim François (KU Leuven)
The Early Modern Bible between Material Book and Immaterial Word
Dr Karen Eileen Overbey (Tufts University) and Dr Jennifer Borland (Oklahoma State University)
Diagnostic Performance and Diagrammatic Manipulation in the Physician’s Folding Almanacs
Dr Jack Hartnell (Columbia University)
Surgical Saws and Cutting Edge Agency
Professor Jacqueline E. Jung (Yale University)
The Boots of Saint Hedwig: Thoughts on the Limits of the Agency of Things
