Life in ancient and medieval times - teeming with poverty, disease, early death, cruelty and war - was hardly enviable. The concern of the Enlightenment was to alter this. Rather than a world of count
An outrageously funny cautionary tale, illustrated by the artist of Aliens Love Underpants?She piled them all onto her bedAnd then, instead of?using bread,She curled the mattress round her thingsAnd m
This innovative book narrates the history of a single object--a tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries--and describes how its role changed after i
An in-depth look at the dynamic cultural world of tea in Japan during its formative periodAround Chigusa investigates the cultural and artistic milieu in which a humble jar of Chinese origin dating to
