Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made – came t

What can we learn about the past by studying things? How does the meaning of things, and our relationship to them, change over time? This fascinating collection

What can we learn about the past by studying things? How does the meaning of things, and our relationship to them, change over time? This fascinating collection

The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly

Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Cl