"Focuses primarliy on the social and historical context in which art was made and used"--Bibliographic essay (p. 326).

A history of Genoa, tracing the city's transformation from an obscure port into the capital of a small but thriving republic with an extensive overseas empire. Covering six ...

South Tyrol, a region in the heart of the Alps about half the size of Connecticut, brings into sharp focus an important part of twentieth-century history. Tyrol, a province ...

The first social and cultural study of the principal 'free' professions in Italy between 1860 and 1914.

This 1995 book is a detailed study of Sicilian life and economy in the 'transitional' reign of Frederick III (1296-1337).

A full account of the Italian nobility in the period after national unification.

A discussion of the relationship between people and water in medieval Italy, first published in 1998.

This well-illustrated and innovative book analyses convent culture in sixteenth-century Italy through the medium of three unpublished nuns' chronicles. It uses a comparative ...