Drawing on a wealth of new source material from the Low Countries, this book offers a new approach to the transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period by providing an alternative interpretation to the predominantly Italo-centric perspective of the current literature, and its concomitant focus on style and on Vitruvian theory.

This book gathers specialists from a variety of fields to explore the possibilities of the material perspective in the study of religion.

This volume is a large exploration of the many sides of Williams's output.