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 ...

Dissenter from the Fourth Crusade, disseised earl of Leicester, leader of the Albigensian Crusade, prince of southern France: Simon of Montfort led a remarkable career of ascent fr...

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...