Benevolence toward the poor in medieval Europe rested upon ideological foundations
established by Christianity and was practiced by a diverse body of clerics and lay people …

Usury is a concept often associated more with religiously based financial ethics, whether
Christian or Islamic, than with the secular world of contemporary finance. The problem is …

Between the early thirteenth and late fifteenth centuries, theologians and preachers in
Western Europe adopted a distinct and rigidly structured sermon format. The scholastic …

I FIRST BECAME acquainted with the Nasi and Del Pugliese families in 1995, when I started
research for a doctoral degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Since that time, I …

In this important and revelatory book, David Young Kim examines how mobility and travel
affected the identities and artistic styles of artists such as Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello …

Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to
various works of Nicholas Cusanus-particularly his Vision of God (1450)-this study reveals a …

Across Europe after 1400, calls for reform echoed through the ranks of nearly every major
religious order. They emerged and took root independently in ways as diverse as the late …

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In 1554, a group of idealistic laywomen founded a home for homeless and orphaned
adolescent girls in one of the worst neighborhoods in Florence. Of the 526 girls who lived in …

The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual
culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary …