This collection of essays by leading scholars reflects new interest in how graphic devices contributed to the production of knowledge during a formative period of European history.

With contributions by Yuval Harari, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Mary Carruthers, Lucy Freeman Sandler, ...

This book engages with the complex interplay between urbanisation and inequality. In doing so it concentrates on the Low Countries, one of the oldest and most urbanised societies of Europe.

50^th volume in the book series Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800)

This volume is the first English-language study of the baptistery of Padua and its extraordinarily rich fresco program, commissioned by a woman, Fina Buzzacarini, in the 1370s.