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"A multifaceted, nuanced investigation of connections between medieval Europe, Africa, and Asia through objects, materials, and technologies. The authors strike a balance between texts and objects as primary sources, providing the reader with an exemplary methodological approach."—Choice

"Beate Fricke and Finbarr Barry Flood have made a major contribution to art history and the interdisciplinary practice of medieval studies with their eminently readable study, Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms. . . . This text is already reconfiguring conversations in the discipline about how collaborative approaches to premodern material might transform our archives and their interpretation."—International Center of Medieval Art

“This is a marvelous book. Written by two great contemporary art historians of the Middle Ages at the top of their game, Tales Things Tell opens a window onto the material archive of movable objects that circulated within diverse trajectories of use and interest across medieval Afro-Eurasia, and does so with brilliance, depth, and care.”—JaÅ› Elsner, author of The Art of the Roman Empire

“Tales Things Tell makes a significant scholarly contribution across a range of art historical specializations, offering new interpretations of a broad range of little-studied objects, monuments, iconographies, and paintings of the long twelfth century.”—Elizabeth A. Lambourn, author of Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World

“Written by two eminent scholars in the field of medieval art and material culture across the globe, Tales Things Tell marks a high point in the discussion and consideration of the mobility of artifacts across regions and cultures. This is a highly original book, offering fresh research on a set of objects currently missing from the art historical canon.”—Ittai Weinryb author of The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages and curator of Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place