{"product_id":"the-sacred-home-in-renaissance-italy-9780198816553","title":"The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy","description":"How did religion colour daily life in the Italian Renaissance home? Peering into the privacy of family rites of passage - childbirth, marriage, and death - the authors expose patterns of piety that helped individuals to confront both the dangers and delights of everyday life, using such material objects as books, artworks, jewellery, and relics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Abigail Brundin,Deborah Howard,Mary Laven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198816553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbigail Brundin\u003c\/strong\u003e specialises in the literature and culture of Italy in the renaissance and early modern periods. She has published on women writers in the first age of print, on literature and religious reform, including censorship and the first Indexes of Prohibited Books, and on poetry in and around convents. She has taught at the University of Cambridge since 2002 and as of 2017 is Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah Howard\u003c\/strong\u003e is an architectural historian whose principal research interests include: the art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; music and architecture in the Renaissance; and the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean. A graduate of Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, she taught at University College London, Edinburgh University, and the Courtauld Institute, before returning to Cambridge in 1992. She was the Head of the Department of History of Art in Cambridge from 2002-2006 and 2007-2009. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary Laven\u003c\/strong\u003e is an early modern historian, who has published widely on the social and cultural history of religion. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eVirgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent\u003c\/em\u003e (2002) and \u003cem\u003eMission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East\u003c\/em\u003e (2011). More recently, her attention has turned to material culture and she has been involved in two major exhibition projects at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She has taught at the University of Cambridge and Jesus College since 1997.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44456458256499,"sku":"9780198816553","price":105.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_8d173d9f-87a2-43c5-8205-68169c887de3.jpg?v=1773750336","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-sacred-home-in-renaissance-italy-9780198816553","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}