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Despite the recent interests of economic and art historians in the workings of the market, we still know remarkably little about the everyday context for the ex

This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.

Did ordinary Italians have a 'Renaissance'? This book presents the first in-depth exploration of how artisans and small local traders experienced the material a

In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the n

Preface -- Introduction -- Civic glamour on the move -- Candles --The flamboyance of death --The sovereign's progress -- Crisis processions and the power of ban