Art Power and Patronage in the Principality of Epirus 1204�1318

Geographical works, as socially constructed texts, provide a rich source for historians and historians of science investigating patronage, the governmental initiatives and support ...

Chapter 1 considers the circumstances underpinning Pope Benedict XIV’s patronage of anatomy and anatomical modelling in Bologna and antiquarian display in Rome. It situates the pop...

Unlike in France, Simon’s possessions in the south were obtained by conquest rather than inheritance. Moreover, that conquest was ideologically justified by a characterization of t...

Chapter 4 follows Anna Morandi’s activities after her husband’s death, reconstructing the setting in which she consolidated her role as a celebrity and recipient of papal patronage...