Flora Dennis
Lecturer in Art History (Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies)

Selected publications

Article

Dennis, Flora (2020) Cooking pots, tableware, and the changing sounds of sociability in Italy, 1300–1700. Sound Studies, 6 (2). pp. 174-195. ISSN 2055-1940

Dennis, Flora (2018) Organology and material culture. Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, 44. pp. 18-25. ISSN ‎0362-3300

Dennis, Flora (2010) Scattered knives and dismembered song: cutlery, music and the rituals of dining. Renaissance Studies, 24 (1). pp. 156-184. ISSN 02691213

Dennis, Flora (2008) Sound and domestic space in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, 16 (1). pp. 7-19. ISSN 2153-5531

Ajmar-Wollheim, Marta, Dennis, Flora and Matchette, Ann (2006) Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior: Sources, Methodologies, Debates. Renaissance Studies, 20 (5). pp. 623-628. ISSN 0269-1213

Book Section

Dennis, Flora (2019) Interior spaces for music. In: Fenlon, Iain and Wistreich, Richard (eds.) The Cambridge history of sixteenth-century music. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 260-287. ISBN 978-0521195942

Dennis, Flora (2017) Musical sound and material culture. In: Richardson, Catherine, Hamling, Tara and Gaimster, David (eds.) The Routledge handbook of material culture in early modern Europe. Routledge History Handbooks . Routlege, London. ISBN 9781409462699

Dennis, Flora (2014) Material culture and sound: a sixteenth-century handbell. In: Gerritsen, Anne and Riello, Giorgio (eds.) Writing material culture history. Writing history . Bloomsbury Academic, London. ISBN 9781472518569

Dennis, Flora (2011) Scattered knives and dismembered song: cutlery, music and the rituals of dining. In: Motture, Peta and O'Malley, Michelle (eds.) Re-thinking Renaissance Objects: Design, Function and Meaning. Renaissance Studies Special Issues, 5 . Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 156-184. ISBN 9781444337754

Dennis, Flora (2010) Unlocking the gates of chastity: music and the erotic in the domestic sphere in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Italy. In: Matthews-Grieco, Sara F (ed.) Erotic cultures of Renaissance Italy. Visual Culture in Early Modernity . Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 223-246. ISBN 9780754662143

Dennis, Flora (2010) Resurrecting Forgotten Sound: Fans and Handbells in Early Modern Italy. In: Everyday Objects: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its Meanings. Ashgate, Farnham and Burlington, VT, pp. 191-210. ISBN 9780754666370

Dennis, Flora (2009) Medieval and Renaissance Music. In: Davies, Glyn and Kennedy, Kirstin (eds.) Medieval and Renaissance Art: People and Possessions. V&A Publications, London, pp. 296-297. ISBN 9781851775798

Dennis, Flora (2006) Representing the domestic interior in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy: from the birth of the Virgin to palaces of cheese. In: Grant, Charlotte and Aynsley, Jeremy (eds.) Imagined Interiors: Representing the domestic interior since the Renaissance. V&A Publications, London, pp. 22-45. ISBN 9781851774920

Edited Book

Dennis, Flora, Ajmar-Wollheim, M and Matchette, A, eds. (2007) Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior: Sources, Methodologies, Debates. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-6175-6

Ajmar-Wollheim, Marta and Dennis, Flora, eds. (2006) At Home in Renaissance Italy. V&A Publications (Exhibition Catalogue). ISBN 9781851774883