Product Description: Using artifacts as primary sources, this book enables students to comprehensively assess and analyze historic evidence in the context of the medieval period.• Provides a single-volume resource for using medieval artifacts to better understand the long-ago past• Supplies images of artifacts with detailed descriptions, explanations of significance, and a list of sources for more information, which help students learn how to effectively analyze primary sources• Presents a virtual window into many different aspects of medieval society and life, including particular activities or roles―such as farming, weaving, fashion, or being a mason or a knight• Includes sidebars within selected entries that explain key terms and concepts and supply excerpts from contemporary source...read more

Product Description: When Roman objects and artifacts are properly analyzed, they serve as valuable primary sources for learning about ancient history. This book provides the guidance and relevant historical context students need to see relics as evidence of long-past events and society...read more