Gender, Politics and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

这个国际化和跨学科的网络汇集了四个节点，以探索早期现代欧洲的性别、权力和实质性主题。它的成立是及时的，它是从2008年以来由PI和CI在早期现代欧洲组织的两次关于性别和政治的国际会议发展而来的。从这些事件中涌现出一群在信件、性别和政治文化方面有共同兴趣的学者，这些兴趣扩展到物质层面，特别是与早期现代档案和赠送礼物有关的领域。在这方面，该网络研究性别、权力和物质性之间的关系，这是根据实物或物质文本以及社会和文化习俗来界定的，以及它们被生产、消费、交换和展示的空间。它聚焦于欧洲早期现代时期不同形式的精英权力，包括形式权力和文化权力。受物质转向的影响，该网络将物品视为社会代理人，分析嵌入实物文物和生产、消费和交换的社会实践中的性别权力，特别是与早期现代实践和现代送礼理论有关的权力。它质疑物质在多大程度上使性别地位稳定和不稳定；并研究对象，以重建围绕对象交换和生产创造的新网络和性别化的权力形式。其次，它认为档案是一种性别权力的形式，是存放实物的空间(如贵族家庭、法院、图书馆)，以及它们与记忆、赠送礼物和展示政治的联系。这种方法的创新之处在于通过性别视角来看待权力和物质性，以及运用不同的方法使历史学家、文学评论家、物质文化专家、人类学家、考古学家(他们带来了对物品和理论的理解)以及策展人、档案员和文物保管员进行对话。此外，该网络还促使在整个欧洲范围内找回一系列实物(如珠宝、书籍和其他礼物)，这些物品将与信件、库存和账目等文件一起被考虑。与‘妇女早期现代在线信函’项目的联系促进了对材料和书面文本的综合探索，由Bodleian主办确保了数字的可持续性。重要的是，该网络汇集了在不同背景下工作的国际学者，他们专门研究各种英国和非英国记录(斯堪的纳维亚、荷兰、法国和德国)，并将不同的历史学、历史传统和古地理技能聚集在一起。会议过程将使用英语，但在不同的欧洲环境中，允许进入通常只有不同语言的工作。该网络计划举办三次研讨会(在瑞典隆德、荷兰莱顿和澳大利亚珀斯)和在普利茅斯举行一次会议。第一阶段是一个名为《近代早期欧洲的性别、权力和物质性理论》的研讨会，旨在研究支撑这一理论的方法论。第二阶段将是一个开幕的“最新情况”国际会议(“早期现代欧洲的性别、权力和物质，1500-1800年”)，这将公开征集论文，以便有可能将网络扩展到一系列学科和地理区域。第三阶段将是关于“性别与早期现代档案馆/空间的政治”的研讨会；而第四阶段将是关于“性别、情感和早期现代礼物交换的动态”的顶峰研讨会。该网络将制作一篇共同撰写的期刊文章、一本编辑过的文集，以及一本关于《档案与空间》的期刊的特刊。该网络网站将在项目开始时开发，并将在两年及以后用作数字学术社交的机制，以宣传活动和研究，并举办在线展览。

This international and transdisciplinary network brings together four nodes to explore the theme of gender, power and materiality in early modern Europe. Its establishment is timely, developing from two international conferences on gender and politics in early modern Europe organised by the PI and CI since 2008. From these events emerged a group of scholars with shared interests in letters, gender and political culture, which expanded into materiality, specifically as it relates to early modern archives and gift-giving. In this context, the network studies relationships between gender, power and materiality, defined both in terms of physical objects or material texts and the social and cultural practices, and spaces in which they were produced, consumed, exchanged and displayed. It focusses on different forms of elite power across the early modern period in Europe, and encompasses formal and cultural power.Influenced by the 'material turn', the network considers objects as social agents, analysing the gendered power embedded within physical artefacts and the social practices of production, consumption and exchange, especially in relation to early modern practices and modern theories of gift-giving. It questions how far materiality made gender positions stable and unstable; and studies objects to reconstruct new networks and gendered forms of power created around object exchange and production. Secondly, it considers archives as a form of gendered power, and spaces (e.g. noble households, courts, libraries) in which material objects were located, and their connection with the politics of memory, gift-giving and display. The newness of this approach lies both in viewing power and materiality through the lens of gender, and the application of diverse approaches bringing into dialogue historians, literary critics, material culture specialists, anthropologists, archaeologists (who bring an understanding of objects and theory), and curators, archivists and conservators. Furthermore, the network prompts an important process of recovery of a range of physical objects across Europe (eg jewels, books and other gifts) which will be considered alongside documents like letters, inventories and accounts. The link with the 'Women's Early Modern Letters Online' project facilitates integrated exploration of material and written texts, and hosting by the Bodleian ensures digital sustainability. Importantly, the network brings together international scholars working on different contexts, who specialise on various UK and non-UK records (Scandinavian, Dutch, French and German), and bring together different historiographies, historical traditions and palaeographical skills. Proceedings will be in English, but in different European settings, allowing access to work ordinarily only available in different languages.The network plans three workshops (in Lund, Sweden; Leiden, The Netherlands; and Perth, Australia) and a conference in Plymouth. The first stage is a workshop 'Gender, Power and Theories of Materiality in Early Modern Europe' to investigate underpinning methodologies. The second stage will be an opening 'state-of-the-field' international conference ('Gender, Power and Materiality in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800'), which will be an open call for papers to allow for the possibility of expanding the network over a range of disciplines and geographical areas. The third stage will be a symposium on 'Gender and the Politics of Early Modern Archives/Spaces'; while the fourth stage will be a capstone workshop on 'Gender, Emotions and the Dynamics of Early Modern Gift-Exchange'. The network will produce a jointly-authored journal article, an edited collection, and a special edition of a journal on 'Archives and Spaces'. The network website will be developed at the outset of the project, and utilised over the two years and beyond as a mechanism of digital scholarly sociability, to publicise events and research, and host an online exhibition.