Telling Objects: Contextualizing the Role of the Consort in Early Modern Europe. Jill Bepler and Svante Norrhem, eds. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen 153. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018. 270 pp. €68

• Published in: Renaissance Quarterly Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 275 - 276
• Main Author: Dunn, Caroline
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2021
• Subjects: Cultural identity; Marriage; Meaning; Personality; Renaissance period; Denmark; Austria; Europe

Telling Objects (a collection stemming from the recent research project Marrying Cultures: Queens Consort and European Identities, 1500–1800) illuminates these trappings by clarifying the types of objects collected, inherited, and bequeathed by European consorts, their meanings, and their movement t...