Description: A range of contributions discussing the languages of power in medieval and early modern Italy in terms of politics, art, and religion.
Brief description: Marc Boone is full professor of medieval social and political history of the (late) Middle Ages at Ghent University. He has been president of the European Association of Urban History and has published mainly in the field of urban history. Martha C. Howell is Miriam Champion professor of History at Columbia University (New York). She has published on late medieval and early-modern European gender history and social history.