This revealing volume sheds new light on the Renaissance in Ireland, Wales and Scotland.

• A revealing look at the Renaissance in Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
  
• Written by leading scholars in the field.
  
• Covers a wide range of topics, such as the printing press and book trade in Reformation Scotland, and the debate between the -old- and the -new- in Welsh poetry.
  
• Shows that the Celtic countries were an integral part of the wider European Renaissance.
  
• Demonstrates how Celtic writers, scholars and patrons contributed to...

Material culture is not static: objects are created, used and re-used, sometimes for centuries, and their lives interact with those of the people who made and used them. The essays in this book discuss the 'social lives' of objects in late-medieval and renaissance Italy, ranging from maiolica, through sculpture and prostitutes' jewellery, to miraculous painted images.

• Demonstrates the continued life of these objects well past the deaths of their creators and patrons.
  
• Contains a series of original contributions by young scholars, representing a broad range of...

Beyond the Palio is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the components and importance of ritual events and ceremonies in Renaissance Siena.

• Brings together studies based upon diverse disciplinary and methodological approaches to a common theme.
  
• Provides specific case studies and useful comparisons to well-known monographic studies of ritual in Florence and Venice.
  
• Concentrates on a single city to emphasize the important function of public rituals to life during the early modern period.
  
• Looks at both local...

Asian Travel in the Renaissance looks at travel in Asia for the purposes of trade, colonialism and religious conversion by a diverse array of Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and English protagonists in the Renaissance era.

• Examines European travel in Asia from a variety of perspectives.
• Presents new research by international scholars.
• Establishes the importance of Asia as a place of aspiration in the early modern period.

This collection, by an international team of scholars, presents exciting research currently being undertaken on early modern Italy which questions the conventional boundaries of medical history.

• Brings together historians of medicine and scholars of different backgrounds who are re-visiting the field from new perspectives and with the support of innovative questions and unexplored sources
• Explores crucial areas of intersection between the territory of medicine and that of law, politics, religion, art and material culture and highlights the connections between these...

This book presents one of the first studies of the Renaissance notion of conscience, through examining theological manuals, legal treatises, letters and other sources of the period.

• Represents one of the few modern studies exploring developments in scholastic and Renaissance notions of conscience
• Synthesizes literary, theological and historical approaches
• Presents case studies from England and the Hispanic World that reveal shared traditions, strategies, and conclusions regarding moral uncertainty
• Sheds new light on the crises of conscience of ordinary...