The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban and industrialized and in s

Material culture studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the relationships between people and their things: the production, history, preservation, a

Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture,

The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established fie

Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen