Sammartini (1700-1775) composed approximately 450 works during his lifetime and was mastro di capella and organist in numerous Milanese churches. These 18 papers--10 of which are in Italian, 1 in Germ
This collection of essays, which is based on a series of seminar papers given at Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1992-93, examines connections of various kinds between London and Europe from the t
The technical and engineering drawings and ideas of Vredeman, who was the Leonardo of the Low Countries, are described in 13 essays by art historians in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and the US.
In the seventeenth century, cultural exchange between the Dutch Republic and the Baltic states was a complex proposition. Sweden was involved in all the major wars of northern and central Europe, but
To trace part of the transformation of the concept of creation from biblical to modern times, scholars of music, literature, the visual arts, and theology focus on medieval liturgical practice, artist
Known then as Scythia and the island of the northern ocean, the territory is now called Scandinavia, Russia, eastern Europe, and countries east of the Caspian Sea. Chekin (history and science and tech
One of two volumes containing a selection of proceedings from the Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2001; the papers focus on Christian Europe and primarily address the nature of affective rela
The post of papal librarian was pivotal in the latter half of the ninth century, an age when international politics were tumultuous, especially in terms of what exactly constituted papal power, and fe
Archaeologists from Scandinavia and Canada examine the character of migration and cultural contact around the northern North Atlantic rim from its Norwegian origin to its northern and western limit. T
Hammer, an independent scholar with a doctorate from the University of Toronto, has returned to the primary sources in this excellent study of Bavaria in the time of the Merovingian and Carolingian ru
Ziolkowski (medieval Latin, Harvard U.) considers which Latin texts of the Middle Ages were chosen for melodies, why they were notated (for reasons relating to meter and accent), and what is known abo
Other studies explore the cultural dimensions of credit in northern Europe during late Medieval and early modern times, but the historians here focus on the nature of credit, its form and structure, a
The architecture, reconstruction, liturgical use, and relation of the cathedral to the mainstream European architectural trends are topics of nine scholarly articles (one article is in German). The ba
The 34 scholarly articles of this well illustrated two- volume Festschrift delve into many aspects of Rubens' oeuvre and that of his contemporaries, as well as the larger context of painting and patro
In order to acquire a better understanding of rural society in preindustrial Europe, Dutch, British, German, and one French historians examine the possession and transfer of land in a region that deve
Held in the collection of Skokloster Castle in central Sweden is a series of 18 paintings that are based upon emblematic plates found in Otto Vænius's Emblemata Horatiana (Antwerp, 1607). In this stud
Klemettilä (not further identified) focuses on the period from the 14th century to the early 16th, a period during which the office of the hangman became established in the European penal system; ther
