Based on extensive new research, this book explores the distinctive political and diplomatic relationship between the late medieval city of Siena and the Angevin royal family of Naples and the ways in which this relationship impacted upon the production and dissemination of Sienese art during the first half of the fourteenth century.

Le présent livre contient neuf versions de la légende de saint Pierre Martyr, dit aussi « de Vérone », rédigées en français ancien (XIII^e-XV^e siècles), qui sont toutes anonymes et n’ont jamais été éditées.

This new study sheds important light on the development of female authorship in the sixteenth century, through a close analysis of the female patronage and manuscript production leading up to the Renaissance in late medieval France.