The Middle Ages in 50 objects
By: Elina Gertsman, Barbara H. Rosenwein
Contributors: Rosenwein, Barbara H., author
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781107150386
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Miscellanea; Civilization; Medieval Civilization; History
Other titles: Middle Ages in fifty objects
Description: "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?" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The holy and the faithful; title: The sinful and the spectral; title: Daily life and its fictions; title: Death and its aftermath.