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SUMMARY:Antiquities\, past\, and present: the Tradescant Collection and it
 s rarities - Chris Hunt (University of Warwick)
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DESCRIPTION:My paper will explore the phenomena of early modern collecting
 \, focusing on the Cabinet of Curiosities owned by the Tradescant family n
 ow housed in the Ashmolean Museum. Paying attention to the antiquities in 
 the collection\, this paper explores early modern ways of seeing in relati
 on to these artefacts\, as well as how these objects influenced ideas of i
 dentity. Beyond this\, the paper will touch on the relationship between an
 tiquities and relics\; they share common qualities and could be seen as si
 milar objects despite the differing historic and religious properties of e
 ach\, and as such were often viewed in lights.\n\nThe paper uses the colle
 ction of the Tradescant family\, as well as its inventory produced by John
  Tradescant the Younger in the 17th century to explore ideas of antiquity\
 , past\, and present\, and how these artefacts from the past actively shap
 ed ideas of English identity in the period. This paper does not use grand 
 narratives of nation building or a comprehensive\, shared idea of England\
 , but aims to reconstruct views of heritage and nature in view of objects 
 from the distant past. The nature of Wunderkammern will be discussed here\
 , with the order of things they possessed relating to the ordering of earl
 y modern cosmology and ideas of the world.\n\nAttention will be given to i
 deas of history in the 16th and 17th centuries\, Cabinets of Curiosities a
 nd collections more widely\, and the Tradescant collection in particular t
 o discuss how antiquities and artefacts interacted with texts to form idea
 s of English identity and heritage in the 17th century.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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