"Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking in the age of Dante was forged in the crucible…
Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking in the age of Dante was forged in the crucible …
"This book focuses on one of the most attractive yet poorly understood features of late-medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her own prayer-book"--
"This book reveals how Gothic choir screens, through both their architecture and sculpture, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of community within the Christian church"-- "In the Catharijneconvent Museum in Utrecht there hangs a panel painting whose diminutive siz…
Cette étude s'attache à reconstituer les stratégies commerciales et les réseaux sociaux des financiers piémontais grâce auxquels ceux-ci jouèrent un rôle de premier plan dans l'économie et la politique du duché de Brabant. Entre le dernier quart du XIIIe siècle et le premier tie…