The Middle Ages in 50 objects / Elina Gertsman, Barbara H. Rosenwein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gertsman, Elina, author.

Rosenwein, Barbara H., author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval--Miscellanea.

Civilization, Medieval.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

xvii, 233 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Middle Ages in fifty objects

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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.

Contents:

The holy and the faithful

The sinful and the spectral

Daily life and its fictions

Death and its aftermath.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9781107150386

1107150388

OCLC:

1009245039