This important book [...] is a helpful guide to thinking with things and teaching with things. Each entry challenges the reader to approach objects as historica
This insightful survey of the "things" of medieval Europe allows modern readers to understand what they looked like, what they were made of, how they were creat
This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and
From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects Between the twelfth and