The DALME collection abounds in unusually interesting objects and inventories. This page serves as a point of entry to short features, posted on a monthly basis, that highlight some of the things to be discovered.
The Object of the Month offers readers sharp insights into a tiny sample of the thousands of objects available in the collections. Essays highlight curious and unusual as well as quotidian objects. The Inventory of the month showcases records that are particularly unusual for reason of the owner's life history or the array of objects listed. Lastly, the Essays are longer analyses published on a less regular basis; these highlight connections between objects or across the collection.
These features, produced by members of the DALME team, offer readers the intimate experience of reading inventories and showcase the potential of material culture to elucidate often hidden aspects of past lives. A number of the essays feature the findings and research interests of our doctoral students.
Laura K. Morreale
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Everyday reading
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Rings of Le Puy
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A count's crusader household
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Florentine Foodstuffs
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A spicer's shop
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Panel Paintings of the Virgin Mary
Xu Li
Peter W. Sposato And Laura K. Morreale
Laura K. Morreale
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Accounting for the Guild
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Second hand goods
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A Box of Jewels and Gems
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Famous Florentine Families
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The Capoletto
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The bastardèllo
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Bits, pieces, and pairs
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Concealment
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Sugar
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Enslaved persons in late 14th-century Florence
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Inside a 14th-century fabric shop
Daniel Lord Smail And Mackenzie Cooley
Claire Allen
Sara Abdelrazik, Nicola Medda And Philip Muijtjens
Daniel Lord Smail
Ryan Low
Daniel Lord Smail
Daniel Lord Smail, With Antonio Belenguer González
Daniel Lord Smail
Laura K. Morreale
Eric Nemarich And Daniel Lord Smail
Ryan Low
Daniel Lord Smail
Ryan Low
Daniel Lord Smail
Laura K. Morreale
Daniel Lord Smail And Ryan Low
Daniel Lord Smail
Marco Tomaszewski
Daniel Lord Smail
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The precocious inventory of the scribe Ambrosius
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Seven ostrich eggshells in the mezzanine
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A partition made from old doors
Susan Mcdonough
Daniel Lord Smail
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An inventory in an inventory
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The cloth merchant Marques de Favas
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Two silver spoons lacking maker's marks
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The slave Anna
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The face of poverty
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The woman merchant, Resens Cambale
