The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

by Abigail Brundin, Deborah Howard, Mary Laven

The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the many ways in which religion infused daily life within...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198816553
• ISBN13: 9780198816553
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"