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- catalog abstract ""Once regarded by historians as a period of intellectual stagnation, the Middle Ages were actually a time of extraordinary cultural and technological innovation. This romp through the inventions of the period tells the story of the first appearance of dozens of items and ideas of lasting significance." "Ranging from the invention of eyeglasses (by a now-forgotten layperson who sought to keep his methods secret, the better to profit from them) to the creation of the fork (at first regarded as an instrument of diabolical perversion but embraced when it helped people handle another invention of the age, pasta), this volume is a fitting tribute to an era from which we still benefit today."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Medioevo sul naso. English".
- catalog contributor b12846378.
- catalog contributor b12846379.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Once regarded by historians as a period of intellectual stagnation, the Middle Ages were actually a time of extraordinary cultural and technological innovation. This romp through the inventions of the period tells the story of the first appearance of dozens of items and ideas of lasting significance." "Ranging from the invention of eyeglasses (by a now-forgotten layperson who sought to keep his methods secret, the better to profit from them) to the creation of the fork (at first regarded as an instrument of diabolical perversion but embraced when it helped people handle another invention of the age, pasta), this volume is a fitting tribute to an era from which we still benefit today."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-175) and index.".
- catalog description "Reading and keeping the books -- Time for pleasure and time for duty -- Dressing and undressing -- And then came the fork -- Making war -- By land and sea.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 178 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0231128126 (cloth : hardcover)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "Translated from the Italian.".
- catalog language "eng ita".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog subject "609.02 21".
- catalog subject "Inventions History.".
- catalog subject "Science, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "T17 .F7713 2003".
- catalog subject "Technology History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Reading and keeping the books -- Time for pleasure and time for duty -- Dressing and undressing -- And then came the fork -- Making war -- By land and sea.".
- catalog title "Books, banks, buttons : and other inventions from the Middle Ages / Chiara Frugoni ; translated by William McCuaig.".
- catalog title "Medioevo sul naso. English".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".