"This volume presents four thematic areas related to the problems connected to research on the Middle Ages using primary source material. They are: "Methodological access to fragmentary sources", "Finding, cataloging and working with fragments", "Fragmentary realities: 'Blind spots' in sources", and "Fragementary objects, fragmentary spaces, spolia". Two introductory articles that discuss the term "fragment" provide the necessary methodological basis."--Publisher's website.