Wilson, Katherine A.2021-02-112021-02-112020-12-01Wilson, K. A. (2021). Commerce and consumers: The ubiquitous chest of the late Middle Ages. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 51(3), 337-404. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_015910022-195310.1162/jinh_a_01591http://hdl.handle.net/10034/624233This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in Journal of Interdisciplinary History. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01591Contrary to their ubiquity within written, visual, and material sources, chests have largely remained overlooked in studies of the late Middle Ages. Bill Brown’s “thing theory” helps to explain the ways in which chests can transform from unnoticed “things” in the background to meaningful “objects” when viewed through their entanglements with commercial, consumer, political, and moral concerns. The interdisciplinary study of chests in the late Middle Ages brings together a range of evidence including inventories, guild accounts, court pleas, contemporary writings, images, and material culture from Burgundy, France, and England.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/medieval historymaterial cultureconsumersArticle1530-9169Journal of Interdisciplinary History