Fifty Early Medieval Things - Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, Paolo Squatriti

Fifty Early Medieval Things

Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
2019
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-2590-6 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
This important book [...] is a helpful guide to thinking with things and teaching with things. Each entry challenges the reader to approach objects as historical actors that can speak to the changes and continuities of life in the late antique and early medieval world.― Early Medieval Europe


Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, Fifty Early Medieval Things demonstrates how to read objects in ways that make the distant past understandable and approachable.


Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects—artifacts, structures, and archaeological features—created between the fourth and eleventh centuries, an ostensibly "Dark Age" whose cultural richness and complexity is often underappreciated. Each thing introduces important themes in the social, political, cultural, religious, and economic history of the postclassical era.


Some of the things, like a simple ard (plow) unearthed in Germany, illustrate changing cultural and technological horizons in the immediate aftermath of Rome's collapse; others, like the Arabic coin found in a Viking burial mound, indicate the interconnectedness of cultures in this period. Objects such as the Book of Kells and the palace-city of Anjar in present-day Jordan represent significant artistic and cultural achievements; more quotidian items (a bone comb, an oil lamp, a handful of chestnuts) belong to the material culture of everyday life. In their thing-by-thing descriptions, the authors connect each object to both specific local conditions and to the broader influences that shaped the first millennium AD, and also explore their use in modern scholarly interpretations, with suggestions for further reading.

Deborah Deliyannis is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University. Paolo Squatriti is Professor of History and Italian at the University of Michigan. Hendrik Dey is Professor of Art History at Hunter College, CUNY.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 61 Illustrations, color; 5 Maps; 16 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 254 mm
Gewicht 907 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
ISBN-10 1-5017-2590-4 / 1501725904
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-2590-6 / 9781501725906
Zustand Neuware
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