Edition: 2011
Pages: 190
Series: IR/L
ISBN: 9788842073567

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

Chiara Frugoni

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The Middle Ages you never knew existed revealed in one thousand inventions: glasses and buttons, but also the fork and spaghetti, musical notes and gunpowder. An enchanting book, informed throughout by light-hearted irony and brightly coloured illustrations.

The author

Chiara Frugoni

Chiara Frugoni is among the greatest scholars of Medieval History in Italy. Her books, which have been translated into many languages throughout the world, have been highly successful and reprinted on numerous occasions. She taught Medieval History in the Universities of Pisa and Rome.

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