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 traces the origins, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and function of these objects of memory and wonder.
Interdisciplinary essays that examine the connections of early modern Italian convents, and how these networks were expressed through texts, art, architecture, music, gift and favour exchange, real estate development, and other modes of expression.