360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, plans ; 25 cm

Medieval life : archaeology and the life course / Roberta Gilchrist.

Silent messengers : the circulation of material objects of knowledge in the early modern low countries / Sven Dupré, Christoph Lüthy, editors.

xi, 430 pages : colour illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Ways of making and knowing : the material culture of empirical knowledge / edited by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R.W. Meyers, and Harold J. Cook.

The Oxford handbook of material culture studies / edited by Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry.

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Medieval life : archaeology and the life course / Roberta Gilchrist.

Silent messengers : the circulation of material objects of knowledge in the early modern low countries / Sven Dupré, Christoph Lüthy, editors.

Ways of making and knowing : the material culture of empirical knowledge / edited by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R.W. Meyers, and Harold J. Cook.

The Oxford handbook of material culture studies / edited by Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry.