Books, Banks, Buttons: And Other Inventions from the Middle Ages Book

This book is a bit light on substance, though there are some fun anecdotes, and I'm fairly sure a few of the explanations were convenient myths. Many of the entries are far too brief, and too much space is used up by technologies imported but not invented in the European Middle Ages.

However, it is a beautiful tome, and the many colored plates, mostly examples of the various inventions as illustrated in medieval art, are interesting and well-chosen. Were it larger it would make a great coffee table book.