<P>1. Introduction: Useful Objects</P><I><P>Christopher Fletcher</P></I><P></P><P>2. Rings of Power: The Interpretation of Early Medieval Objects of Adornment</P><I><P>Julie Renou</P></I><P></P><P>3. The Practical and Symbolic Uses of the Medieval Horn: From Power Object to Common Instrument</P><I><P>Luc Bourgeois</P></I><P></P><P>4. A History of Domestic Disorder: The French Royal Household in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century</P><I><P>Gil Bartholeyns</P></I><B><P></P></B><P>5. The Prince and His Coffer: The Material Functions and Symbolic Power of an Everyday Political Object at the End of the Middle Ages</P><I><P>Jean-Baptiste Santamaria</P></I><P></P><P>6. Teapots, Fans and Snuffboxes: The Portable Politics of Gender and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain</P><I><P>Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding</P></I><P></P><P>7. Wooden Shoes and Wellington Boots: The Politics of Footwear in Georgian Britain.</P><I><P>Matthew McCormack</P></I><P></P><P>8. The Fan during the French Revolution: From the Elite to the People</P><I><P>Mathilde Semal</P></I><P></P><P>9. Resisting with Objects? Seditious Political Objects and Their 'Agency' in Restoration France (1814-1830)</P><I><P>Emmanuel Fureix</P></I><P></P><P>10. A Sonorous Politics of Everyday Objects: Coal Workers' Charivaris during the Anzin Strike of 1884</P><I><P>Adrien Quièvre</P></I><P></P><P>11. Political Fashion: Elegance as Subversion in the Congos of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries</P><I><P>Manuel Charpy</P></I><P></P><P>12. 'Citizen Browning': The Banality of a Revolutionary Object, c. 1905-c. 1912</P><I><P>Eric Fournier</P></I><P></P><P>13. Bringing Audible Propaganda into the Everyday: The Politicization of the Phonograph Record from its Origins to the SERP, 1888-2000</P><I><P>Jonathan Thomas</P></I><P></P><P>14. Image, Voice and Voivodes: Communist <I>Diafilm</I> in Romania, 1950-1989</P><I><P>Alexandra Ilina</P><P></P></I><P>15. The Trajectory of a Spear: The Materiality of an Everyday Political Object in North-Western Burkina</P><I><P>Laurence Douny</P></I>