Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart
Fuchs's De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica are …

The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning
that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of …

This article examines a treatise on the concept of Splendour from the late fifteenth century.
Written by the Naples-based humanist, Giovanni Pontano, it deals, with the domestic display …

Expanding interdisciplinary investigations into gender and material culture, Katherine A.
McIver here adds a new dimension to Renaissance patronage studies by considering …

These are the themes on which this book is focused, and a brief sketch of the range,
diversity, and emotional implications of Pepys's interactions with dogs in particular will serve …

Through a visually oriented investigation of historical (in) visibility in early modern Italy, this
volume includes essays that recover those women-wives, widows, mistresses, the …

The material remains and environmental data recovered during a rescue excavation in 2002–
03 in the castle of the new town of Middelburg-in-Flanders throw light on the site, region and …

This chapter examines the case of the animalino, and other companion cats and dogs at the
Mantuan court. It explores the possibility of understanding animal experience and feelings …

One of The Christian Science Monitor's Ten Best Books of May" A highly original work of
history...[Saltzman] has written a distinctive study that transcends both art and history and …

In the 1970s two critical works radically opened new theoretical and methodological
possibilities for scholars of early modern women in power. Joan Kelly's essay,'Did Women …