Encounters: in 50 Objects
About the Book Series
Is a series of books that look at different topics in history and explore how material culture can provide an insight into that topic. The books offer engaging, wellresearched introductions to fifty key objects, making it easy for lecturers to integrate material culture into the study of the past and for undergraduate students to gain a reliable, richly detailed overview.
The books contain a short introduction that orientates the readers to the particular issues and context surrounding material culture of the period, as relates to the topic of the volume and each individual chapter concludes with a brief but targeted list of suggestions for further reading. Each chapter should contain at least one image of the object discussed alongside an analysis and context of the significance of the item. Taken as a whole, readers will see these fifty objects not as isolated cases, but rather as part of a larger and more complex tapestry, one that connects them to one another as well as the period.
Encounters: Medieval Economy in 50 Objects
1st Edition
By Tanja Skambraks, Christina Antenhofer, Ulrich Müller, Elisabeth Gruber
October 02, 2026
Exploring medieval economy through its artifacts, this book presents 50 object biographies that illuminate daily life, economic ethics, production, trade, and finance, offering a tangible perspective on the systems of the long medieval period. Combining the expertise of three historians and an ...
Encounters: The Crusades in 50 Objects
1st Edition
By Cathleen A. Fleck, Elizabeth Lapina, Richard A. Leson, Vardit Ruth Shotten
July 01, 2026
From the late eleventh to the late thirteenth century, during the existence of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and other crusader states, Latin Christians did not only frequently encounter Muslims on the battlefield, but also engagedin unprecedented commercial and cultural exchanges with the Muslim, ...
Encounters: Medieval Islamic History in 50 Objects
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus Milwright
November 13, 2025
This book consists of fifty case studies and offers an innovative approach to the study of Medieval Islamic history, concentrating on the analysis of physical objects from the seventh to the eighteenth centuries and across most of the regions that make up the pre-Modern Islamic world. These include...