"Whether situated in churches or circulating in more flexible, mobile works--manuscript and printed texts, jewels and rosaries, personal bequests, or antique "rarities"--Monuments were ubiquitous in post-Reformation England. In this period of religious change, the unsettled mean…
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A selection of papers delivered during the fifth Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art, in October 1999 focusing on the complexities of cultural and religious encounters between Orthodox Ethiopians and Catholic Europeans that took place during the sixteenth and seventeenth …
Introduction -- The politics of women's "domestic" alliances. Distaff power: plebeian female alliances in early modern England / Bernard Capp -- Between women: slanderous speech and neighborly bonds in Henry Porter's The two angry women of Abington / Ronda Arab -- The political …
Sebastiano del Piombo's invention and its initial influence -- Ars et Natura : the poetics and collecting of paintings on stone -- Other materials, metaphors, and inventions
"In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by cultural, religious, and legal authorities on the grounds that it disrupted family blood lines. In fact, historians have assumed that adoption had generally no…
