| Description |
xvii, 233 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Summary |
"Complex and varied, vibrant and intense, medieval objects demand to be examined closely, to be thought about deeply, to be approached kinesthetically. Extraordinary in the multiplicity of meanings that it harbors and engenders, the material culture of the Middle Ages offers its beholders a rich experience of looking, often multisensory, always rewarding. It offers, too, a glimpse of an equally rich society, or rather the many societies that were in constant flux and in intermittent conversations (and, at times, screaming matches) with one another. And yet, each object has its own history. So how do we write history through objects?" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The holy and the faithful -- The sinful and the spectral -- Daily life and its fictions -- Death and its aftermath. |
| Subject |
Civilization, Medieval -- Miscellanea.
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Civilization -- History -- To 1500 -- Miscellanea.
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Civilization, Medieval. (OCoLC)fst00863049
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| Genre/Form |
Miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01423854
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| Added Author |
Rosenwein, Barbara H., author.
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| Added Title |
Middle Ages in fifty objects |
| Standard No. |
40028319755 |
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40028300779 |
| ISBN |
9781107150386 (hardback) |
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1107150388 (hardback) |
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