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| Semester | fall semester 2018 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers |
Katherine Bond (katherine.bond@unibas.ch)
Susanna Burghartz (susanna.burghartz@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | In the rapidly globalising world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dress customs emerged as the prevailing subject through which to understand human diversity. Popular interest in distant and neighbouring societies was stoked by the appearance of foreign dignitaries, soldiers, migrants, or slaves in European cities, as well as by the reports of curious fashions recorded by travellers. Visual culture became an important site for the mediation of cultural knowledge. News pamphlets, maps, travelogues, albums, books, prints and drawings all drew attention to the world’s diverse clothing customs, and consequently played an imperative role in the creation and circulation of global, ethnographic knowledge. Through a focused analysis of dress and bodily adornment, this course offers contemporary exercises of viewing aimed at exploring the representational practices of early modern Europe. In the first part of the course, students will assess the impact of travel and cross-cultural encounter upon the period’s visual culture and will consider the representational challenge posed by the populations of ‘New Worlds’. The second part of the course positions the increasing production of costume imagery amid the colonial, commercial, and diplomatic relationships of empire (Habsburg and Ottoman), while the third and final part turns to the popular printed genre of costume books, theorising dress as a system for ethnographic classification and an important subject for nationalist and moralist discourses. This course provides practical training in visual analysis and introduces students to historical methodologies for the study of visual and material culture. |
| Bibliography | Jones, Ann Rosalind, Margaret F. Rosenthal, and Cesare Vecellio. Clothing of the Renaissance World: Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas: Cesare Vecellio’s Habiti Antichi et Moderni. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. Leitch, Stephanie. Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany: New Worlds in Print Culture. History of Text Technologies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Lillethun, Abby and Linda Welters, eds. Fashion History: A Global View. London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Mentges, Gabriele. “Vestimentäre Mapping. Trachtenbücher und Trachtenhandschriften des 16. Jahrhunderts.” Waffen- und Kostümkunde 1 (2004): 19–36. Rublack, Ulinka. Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| Admission requirements | Für Master- und fortgeschrittene Bachelorstudierende der Geschichte. Bachelorstudierende weisen den Abschluss der Grundstufe des BSF Geschichte nach (mindestens 3 Proseminare und 3 Proseminararbeiten). Bei Überbelegung wird die Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt. In diesem Fall werden Studierende der Geschichte bevorzugt zugelassen. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Modul Areas: transnational - global (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul Epochen der europäischen Geschichte: Frühe Neuzeit (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul Methoden - Reflexion - Theorien: Bilder - Medien - Repräsentationen (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul Mittelalter / Frühe Neuzeit (Master's degree subject: History) Modul Profil: Geschlechtergeschichte (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul Profil: Renaissance (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul Profil: Vormoderne (Master's degree program: European History (Start of studies before 01.08.2018)) Modul: Areas: Europa Global (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Aufbau Frühe Neuzeit (Bachelor's degree subject: History) Modul: Epochen der europäischen Geschichte: Frühe Neuzeit (Master's degree program: European History in Global Perspective) Modul: Europäisierung und Globalisierung (Master's Studies: European Global Studies) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Aktive Teilnahme. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Departement Geschichte |