Long neglected by scholars, medieval and Renaissance Bologna is now recognized as a center of economic, political-constitutional, legal, and intellectual innova

This book presents case studies of collectors, patrons, and agents whose activities redefined collecting and the art market during a period when the status of t

This book is a study of architecture and urban design across the Mediterranean Sea from the 12th to the 14th Century, a time when there was no single, hegemonic

Healers in the Making investigates medical instruction at the University of Bologna using the lens of practical medicine, focusing on both anatomical and surgic

This volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease