The lives, careers, and patrons of the painters Hendrick Steenwyck I and II (father and son) are described as an introduction to this impressively researched catalogue raisonné of their paintings. Bor
The focus is on semiosis rather than language, because the gathering encompassed gesture, posture, kinesics, facial expression, sign languages, writing systems, and other realms that use signs and sym
The disk displays the work of a German research project by linking passages of text, images, spoken commentaries, and animated sequences of images to present results in a more concentrated and succinc
The mystical work, Mirror of simple souls, is notable for being written in French (not Latin), being written by a woman, and being a widely influential and popular spiritual tract even though its auth
Definitive in its scope and research, this volume presents analysis and a full catalogue of the over 70 known surviving manuscripts of the so-called Masters of the Dark Eyes (the name refers to the di
The first volume, published in 2005, profiled 20th-century medievalists who contributed to history beyond the Middle Ages, and to the international intellectual milieu more broadly. That anthology hav
Jonckheere gives fascinating insights into this technically and aesthetically superb painter, including about the religion that bounded his work but also set it free. The color plates for the catalog
Bondt details the history of tennis in Renaissance Italy--a fairly unresearched topic--and how it became a center for its development as a high cultural form of private court entertainment. He traces
Mary (1177-1213) was one of the pioneers in the movement for women's non-monastic spirituality. Born into a rich family, she married, but she and her husband spent most of their adult life in celibacy
The first uses of the term frontiere in thirteenth century French were military, referring to the first line of troops in a battle. In architecture it meant the front of a building, and at the end of
This study of the work of Titian grew out of a series of sessions presented at the 2004 meeting of the Renaissance Society of America and is edited by Woods-Marsden (art history, UCLA). Most of the es
