This 1995 book analyses the social, political and religious roles of the confraternities - the lay groups through which Italians of the Renaissance expressed th

Though portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just as effectively as those of younger women, the scant published research on images of older wom

Lorenzo Polizzotto examines the educational, religious, political, and philanthropic practices of the Florentine youth confraternity of the Purification. Founde

This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe between ca. 1300 and 1700. Ex

An introduction to Catholic theological ethics through the lens of its historical development from the beginning of the church until today.