In Florence, in the summer of 1501, a man named Antonio Rinaldeschi was arrested and hanged after throwing horse dung at an outdoor painting of the Virgin Mary.

Interested in the ways in which medieval and early modern communities have acted as participants, observers, and interpreters of events and how they ascribed me

The Ugly Renaissance is a delightfully debauched tour of the sordid, gritty reality behind some of the most celebrated artworks and cultural innovations of all

A wide ranging survey of the political principles which underlay, or were used to justify, political proposals and decisions in Renaissance Italy.

In Renaissance and early modern Europe, various constellations of phenomena-ranging from sex scandals to legal debates to flurries of satirical prints-collectiv