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Knowledge Production, Image Networks, and the Material Significance of Feathers in Late Humanist Heidelberg

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2021

Stefan Hanß  and
Ulinka Rublack
Stefan Hanß
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
Ulinka Rublack
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Abstract

Examining the three volumes of birds assembled by Marcus zum Lamm (1544–1606), a Calvinist lawyer, court official, and church councillor in Heidelberg, this article explores visual and material cultures at a Calvinist court. We argue that Lamm was a pioneer in the production of new ornithological knowledge, an entrepreneur and enthusiast who experimented with colors and the arts in order to develop a means of representation that captured the vibrancy of feathers as a new and hitherto-unexplored feature for the classification of birds.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 74 , Issue 2 , Summer 2021 , pp. 412 - 453
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This research has been conducted as part of the Swiss National Science Foundation–funded research group Materialized Identities: Objects, Affects and Effects in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1750. We presented earlier drafts at “Epistemic Images in Early Modern Germany and Its Neighbours” (Cambridge, 2016) and at the German History Society Annual Conference (London, 2019). We wish to express our thanks for all comments received during these events, especially for those from Sachiko Kusukawa and Alexander Marr. All translations are the authors’ own unless otherwise specified.

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