Time: 4pm-6:30pm, CET
Values and metaphors
Allison Stielau (London).
The Balance in Early Modern Representation: Diagramming Time and Judgment.
Valentina Pugliano (Boston).
Tipping the scale: fraud, respectability and weighing practices in early modern Italian pharmacy.
Madalena Costa Lima (Lisbon).
Romanesque architecture as ‘heavy gothic’ architecture: weight in the reflections about medieval architecture during the long 18th century.
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Case study: Metal assaying
Norman Biggs (London).
John Reynolds: Weighing at the London Mint in the 1600s.
Umberto Veronesi (London).
Weighing and testing in the new world: The material culture of assay practices in colonial Jamestown (1607-1610).