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

The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early mod

Investigates broadly the conceptions of material things as represented in medieval literature.

This monograph book offers a new interpretation of northern European art of the fifteenth century. The author presents it as a conglomerate of objects-things wh

In the age of European expansion, pearls became potent symbols of imperial supremacy. Pearls for the Crown demonstrates how European art legitimated racialized