The Material and Emotional Worlds of Albrecht Dürer’s Nuremberg

1. Albrecht Dürer and Nuremberg – Material Connections and Emotional Resonances

Jennifer Spinks, Sasha Handley and Charles Zika

Part I: Nuremberg’s Material Creativity

2. Dürer and the Allure of Silver

Heike Zech

3. Dürer’s Pillows

Holly Fletcher and Sasha Handley

4. Multispecies Affectivity in Albrecht Dürer’s Material Renaissance: The Matter of Birds

Stefan Hanß

5. Soundings of Albrecht Dürer’s Affective Material World

Matthew S. Champion 

Part II: Engendering Communities

6. The Collaborative Dürer

Jeffrey Chipps Smith

7. Parungan and Paragone: Subject and Object in Dürer’s Venetian Letters

Ulinka Rublack

8. Nuremberg Sculptors, Materials and Devotions in the Choir of St. Sebald’s

Larry Silver

9. Confronting Jews in Dürer’s Nuremberg

Charles Zika

10. Dürer’s Sensory Journey to the Netherlands. Material Encounters of a Curious Mind

Dagmar Eichberger

Part III: Reshaping Visual Cultures

11. “A miraculous gift from God”: Dürer’s Translation of the Physical World into Art

Daniel Hess

12. Blood Rain: Wonder, Materiality and Emotions in Albrecht Dürer’s Gedenkbuch

Jennifer Spinks

13. The Enigma of the Object and the Flight of Melancholy in Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I

Andrew Morrall

14. Engravings worth one Gulden’: Dürer, Money and the Value of Art

Christine Demele 

15. Making and Remaking Melencolia I: Nuremberg, Antwerp and Manchester

Edward H. Wouk

Biography

Jennifer Spinks is Hansen Associate Professor in History, University of Melbourne. Her publications include Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany (2009), Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400–1700 (co-edited, 2016), and Albrecht Dürer’s Material World (co-edited, 2023). 

Sasha Handley is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester. Her publications include New Directions in Social and Cultural History (co-edited, 2018), Sleep in Early Modern England (2016), and Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England (2007).  

Charles Zika is Professorial Fellow in History, University of Melbourne. His publications include Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early Modern Europe (co-edited, 2019), The Appearance of Witchcraft: Print and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Europe (2007), and Dürer and his Culture (co-edited, 1998).