"Thorough and convincing... likely to become the standard work on the subject." —Library Journal"Highly readable." —Medieval Literature"A major work of synthesis." —Walter E. Kaegi "Burns has achieved much for the modern study of Ostrogoths." —Antiquaries Journal
In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bozena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects-pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils-tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts
