Bishop's Palace

Description:

This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller...

Brief description: Maureen C. Miller is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Bishop's Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy and The Formation of a Medieval Church: Ecclesiastical Change in Verona, 950-1150, both from Cornell, and Power and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict: A Brief Documentary History.

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This handsomely designed book... is the first volume in what promises to be an exciting interdisciplinary series from Cornell... A welcome contribution to many areas of medieval culture that were previously little understood. As a pivotal work that outlines the parameters of a rarely studied building type and its cultural practices, Miller's book offers a step forward and throws the door open on a new range of issues that could be pursued by specialists of various disciplines and methodological stripes.