This from the Society of Antiquaries' online newsletter:
David Hinton’s absorbing book called Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins:
possessions and people in medieval Britain (see the Oxford University
Press website) ... explores the very topical theme of how identity was
created, and how social division was expressed and reinforced, through
people’s possessions at every level of society, and their reasons for
acquiring, keeping, displaying and disposing of the things that they
wore and had in their houses. The book ranges chronologically from the
end of the Roman rule of Britain to the early sixteenth century.
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