Parution : Laura Cleaver, Kathryn Gerry (dir.), « Lost Artefacts from Medieval England and France. Representation, Reimagination, Recovery », Suffolk, Boydell & Brewer, 2022
Surviving accounts of the material culture of medieval Europe – including buildings, boats, reliquaries, wall paintings, textiles, ivory mirror cases, book bindings and much more – present a tantalising glimpse of medieval life, hinting at the material richness of that era. However, students and scholars of the period will be all too familiar with the frustration of trying to piece together a picture of the past from a handful of fragments. The “material turn” has...