Books, Banks, Buttons: And Other Inventions From The Middle Ages - Softcover

Frugoni, Chiara

 
9780231128131: Books, Banks, Buttons: And Other Inventions From The Middle Ages

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Identifies the technological innovations of the middle ages, noting how such ubiquitous items as eyeglasses, books, arabic numbers, underwear, banks, the game of chess, clocks, and domesticated cats came into being during the period.

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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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ISBN 10:  0231128126 ISBN 13:  9780231128124
Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2003
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