Books, Banks, Buttons: And Other Inventions from the Middle Ages

Chiara Frugoni

June, 2005
Paper, 240 pages, 100 color illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12813-1
$26.00 / £15.50

Cloth, 240 pages, 100 color illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12812-4
$77.50

1. Reading and Keeping the Books

2. Time for Pleasure and Time for Duty

3. Dressing and Undressing

4. And Then Came the Fork

5. Making War

6. By Land and Sea

Related Subjects

• Medieval History

About the Author

Chiara Frugoni is professor of medieval history at the University of Rome II, a frequent contributor to La Repubblica and the Manifesto, and the author of many books, including Francis of Assisi: A Life, A Distant City: Images of Urban Experience in the Medieval World, and A Day in the Life of a Medieval City (forthcoming). William McCuaig is a translator living in Toronto.

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