Renaissance StudiesHighlightsSpring 2020

Antwerp in the RenaissanceBruno Blondé, Jeroen Puttevils (eds)

This book engages with Antwerp in the Renaissance. Bringing together several specialists of sixteenth-century Antwerp, it o�fers new research results and fresh perspectives on the economic, cultural and social history of the metropolis in the sixteenth century. Recurrent themes are the creative ways in which the Italian renaissance was translated in the Antwerp context.

approx. 350 p., 178 x 254 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-58833-9Hardback: approx. € 85 / $ 111.00Series: Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), vol. 49FORTHCOMING

Transregional Territories Crossing Borders in the Early Modern Low Countries and BeyondBram De Ridder, Violet Soen, Werner Thomas, Sophie Verreyken (eds)

By focussing on the border regions of the Spanish Habsburg LowCountries, and by exploring interactions in and beyond these borderlands, the chapters shed light on how humans in the pastcreated, handled and surpassed the territorial boundaries theyencountered. This approach reveals how early modern bordersfunctioned not only as areas of communication and movement, but also as barriers that hindered or impeded cross-border exchanges.

approx. 252 p., 7 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-58493-5Paperback: € 64 / $ 84.00Series: Habsburg Worlds, vol. 2FORTHCOMING

Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, 1420-1540Tim Shephard, Sanna Raninen, Serenella Sessini, Laura Stefanescu

The fi rst detailed survey of the representation of music in the art of Renaissance Italy, opening up new vistas within the social and culture history of Italian music and art in thefi �teenth and early sixteenth centuries.

approx. 400 p., 227 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-1-912554-02-7Hardback: approx. € 125 / $163.00Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art HistoryFORTHCOMING

Sacred Images and NormativityContested Forms in Early Modern ArtChiara Franceschini (ed.)

This volume “Contested forms” aims to provide a fi rst exploration of image normativity by means of a series of case studies, which will focus in di�ferent ways on the intersections between the limits of the sacred image and the power of art, especially but not exclusively in Europe, between 1450 and 1650. Each essay will approach the question of normativity in sacred images from di�ferent perspectives.

approx. € 280 p., 80 b/w ills, 30 col. ills, 216 x 280 mm, ISBN 978-2-503-58466-9Hardback: approx. € 115 / $150.00Series: The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe, vol. 1FORTHCOMING

Faith and Knowledge in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia Karoline Kjesrud, Mikael Males (eds)

Covering the late medieval up to the early modern period, this volume o�fers new insights into intellectual culture in Scandinavia, and the remarkable longevity of local beliefs even into the early post-Reformation period.

306 p., 19 col. ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-57900-9Hardback: € 95 / $124.00Series: Knowledge, Scholarship, and Science in the Middle Ages, vol. 1

Music and Theology in the European Reformations David Burn, Grantley Robert McDonald, Joseph Verheyden, Peter De Mey (eds)

A multidisciplinary collection of twenty essays that examine the debates and controversies around music and theology duringthe period of the European Reformations from both Catholic and various Protestant perspectives.

500 p., 33 b/w ills, 178 x 254 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-58226-9Paperback: € 100 / $130.00Series: Epitome musical

Transmission of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance Outi Merisalo, Susanna Niiranen, Miika Kuha (eds)

This volume explores the Late Medieval and Renaissance transmission of texts of di�ferent genres, languages and periods from the book historical point of view, taking into consideration not only the textual but also the material aspect of the traditions.

239 p., 19 col. ills, 216 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-58156-9Paperback: € 80Series: Bibliologia, vol. 53

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Renaissance Illuminators in ParisArtists & Artisans 1500-1715Richard H. Rouse, Mary A. Rouse

The commercial manuscript book-trade in Paris, that had begun as early as the mid-12th

century, was severely disrupted by the arrival of the fi rst printing presses in Paris around 1475. This publication traces the activities to which 16th- and 17th-century book artisans had to turn, faced as they were with a dwindling market for manuscripts. In addition to the richly illustrated text, the volume also includes a Register of more than 500 named Illuminators in alphabetical order, giving also their a�fi liation to their alternative trades and listing personal details including family members and professional associates.

280 p., 65 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-1-912554-28-7Hardback: € 125 / $163.00Series: A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France, vol. 5

Painting as a Modern Art in Early Renaissance Italy Robert Brennan

Concepts of modernity have played a constitutive role in the canon of European art history at least since Giorgio Vasari, who looked back upon Giotto as the founder of “modern art” (arte moderna). The aim of this book is to establish a prehistory of Vasari’s view. Was Vasari merely projecting a sixteenth-century concept of artistic modernity onto the fourteenth and fi �teenth centuries, or were the artists of that period guided by some notion of modernity as well?

366 p., 11 b/w ills, 115 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-1-912554-00-3Hardback: € 125 / $163.00Series: Renovatio Artium, vol. 3

Andrea MantegnaHumanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of ImagesStephen Campbell

This book re-examines the career of one socially and intellectually ambitious artist, Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) and his intellectual network, to re-open questions of the locations of humanism, the notion of “humanist art,” or painting as a form of discourse that far from being ancillary to poetry, history, or rhetoric, served as a model for all three.

approx. 320 p., 150 col. ills, 220 x 300 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-1-912554-34-8Hardback: € 100 / $ 130.00Series: Renovatio Artium, vol. 8FORTHCOMING

Comparing Two ItaliesCivic Tradition, Trade Networks, Family Relationships between the Italy of Communes and the Kingdom of SicilyPatrizia Mainoni, Nicola Lorenzo Barile (eds)

Recalling David Abulafi a’s 1977 book The Two Italies, about the origins of the so-called ‘unequal exchange’ and ‘dual economy’ between Northern and Southern Italy, this collection of essays points to di�ferent interpretative paths, which concern not only trade networks, but also less well-known aspects of the interrelation, such as the rise of civic tradition, the spread of Mendicant Orders, and the circulation of wealth through family relationships, women, marriage and patrimonial assets.

approx. 260 p., 3 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-56976-5Hardback: approx. € 90 / $117.00Series: Mediterranean Nexus 1100-1700, vol. 7FORTHCOMING

Art MovesThe Material Culture of Processions in Renaissance Perugia Pascale Rihouet, Jean-Claude Schmitt (intro.)

Art Moves reconstructs the appearance and conditions of use of processional artifacts, whether they were worn (uniforms and liveries), held by individuals, (maces, �lags, and candles), or carried communally (canopy, reliquaries, banners, or statues). It investigates how objects were charged with meaning from medium and fabrication to market value to size and weight. In doing so, it o�fers a new way of looking at the dynamics of urban processions while revivifying the sensory experience of public life in Italy, ca. 1350-1600.

iv + 323 p., 69 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-1-909400-83-2Hardback: € 110 / $143.00Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History

Cultures du spectacle baroqueCadres, expériences et représentations des solennités religieuses entre Italie et anciens Pays-BasRalph Dekoninck, Maarten Delbeke, Annick Delfosse, Caroline Heering, Koen Vermeir (éd.)

Le présent volume se donne pour ambition de renouveler l’analyse historique et théorique des solennités spectaculaires en s’intéressant tout particulièrement aux e�fets produits par les dispositifs déployés lors de ce type de manifestations.

364 p., 190 x 255 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-90-74461-93-1Paperback: € 85Série: Artes, vol. 10

Undressing Rubens Fashion and Painting in Seventeenth-Century AntwerpAbigail Newman, Lieneke Nijkamp (eds)

The essays collected in this volume meet at a point of convergence between costume, art, and history, and focus on the seventeenth-century Southern Netherlands. Undressing Rubens looks at the signifi cance of costume in life and art in the age of Rubens, confi rming that this is hardly an insular topic. Stretching back several centuries to provide critical context and points of origin for many seventeenth-century practices and ideas, the innovative research presented here also points forward in time, dealing with implications in later centuries but also, in many cases, engaging directly with questions of historiography still quite relevant today.

232 p., 3 b/w ills, 136 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-1-912554-22-5Hardback: € 135 / $ 176.00Published outside a Series

Convent Networks in Early Modern Italy Saundra Weddle, Marilyn Dunn (eds)

Interdisciplinary essays that examine the connections of early modern Italian convents, and how these networks were expressed through texts, art, architecture, music, gi�t and favour exchange, real estate development, and other modes of expression.

approx. 325 p., 35 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-58607-6Hardback: € 85 / $111.00Series: Europa Sacra, vol. 25FORTHCOMING

Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s Felsina Pittriceor The Lives of the Bolognese Painters Life of Guido ReniElizabeth Cropper and Lorenzo Pericolo (eds)

Celebrated by Malvasia as the creator and promoter of the new maniera moderna, Guido Reni (1575–1642) introduces the fourth age of painting: a period marked by an original and sometimes bold elaboration of the notion of artistic perfection developed by the Carracci and embodied more specifi cally by Ludovico’s “synthesis of styles.” Based on a radical reassessment of the historical documentation and a profound investigation of Malvasia’s art criticism, these volumes o�fer the most thorough treatment to date of the artist’s work.

2 vols. 1152 p., 367 col. ills, 9 b/w ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-1-909400-69-6Hardback: € 350 / $455.00Series: Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s Felsina Pittrice or The Lives of the Bolognese Painters, vol. 9

Arrayed in SplendourArt, Fashion, and Textiles in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeChristoph Brachmann (ed.)

Ranging from the twel�th to the seventeenth centuries, this collection of essays of leading scholars in the fi eld o�fers an invaluable window into the complexity of the textile arts and their medium, from the overpowering splendour of liturgical and princely garments and the luxurious fabrics used for them in the Middle Ages and early modern period, to the visual world of monumental room decorations in the form of tapestries.

264 p., 3 b/w ills, 111 col. ills, 216 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-57965-8Paperback: € 100 / $ 130.00Published outside a Series

Festival and Violence Princely Entries in the Context of War, 1480-1635Margaret McGowan

European Renaissance Festivals are noted for their extravagance, for their inherited classical culture, and as evidence of how court and civic spectacles could express political, religious, social, and economic aspirations. In this new monograph, the accent is fi rmly on the violent context of Magnifi cence: it examines how war a�fected the minds and practice of both artists and princes, and shows how victims and their su�fering were as prominent in festival as were conquerors and their projections of victory.

303 p., 48 b/w ills, 9 col. ills, 178 x 254 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-58333-4Hardback: € 85 / $111.00Series: European Festival Studies: 1450-1700

BormanA Family of Northern Renaissance Sculptors Marjan Debaene (ed.)

This late-medieval sculptor managed a busy workshop in Brussels, with commissions pouring in from religious institutions as well as from the bourgeoisie and princely rulers. He trained his sons Jan III and Passchier to become master sculptors a�ter his own example and to have at least as shrewd a head for business as he himself. Borman was a virtuoso, a master but above all an innovator, who in�luenced many other sculptors. This book gathers essays by leading academics and presents a summary catalogue of all works attributed to the Borman family.

312 p., 560 col. ills, 240 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-1-912554-41-6Hardback: € 100 / $130.00Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History

Cover image: Domenico del Barbiere / Michelangelo Buonarroti, Group from Last Judgment, St. Bartholomew, St. Peter, and other ApostlesMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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Renaissance StudiesHighlightsSpring 2020

Antwerp in the RenaissanceBruno Blondé, Jeroen Puttevils (eds)

This book engages with Antwerp in the Renaissance. Bringing together several specialists of sixteenth-century Antwerp, it o�fers new research results and fresh perspectives on the economic, cultural and social history of the metropolis in the sixteenth century. Recurrent themes are the creative ways in which the Italian renaissance was translated in the Antwerp context.

approx. 350 p., 178 x 254 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-58833-9Hardback: approx. € 85 / $ 111.00Series: Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), vol. 49FORTHCOMING

Transregional Territories Crossing Borders in the Early Modern Low Countries and BeyondBram De Ridder, Violet Soen, Werner Thomas, Sophie Verreyken (eds)

By focussing on the border regions of the Spanish Habsburg Low Countries, and by exploring interactions in and beyond these borderlands, the chapters shed light on how humans in the past created, handled and surpassed the territorial boundaries they encountered. This approach reveals how early modern borders functioned not only as areas of communication and movement, but also as barriers that hindered or impeded cross-border exchanges.

approx. 252 p., 7 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-58493-5Paperback: € 64 / $ 84.00Series: Habsburg Worlds, vol. 2FORTHCOMING

Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, 1420-1540Tim Shephard, Sanna Raninen, Serenella Sessini, Laura Stefanescu

The fi rst detailed survey of the representation of music in the art of Renaissance Italy, opening up new vistas within the social and culture history of Italian music and art in the fi �teenth and early sixteenth centuries.

approx. 400 p., 227 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-1-912554-02-7Hardback: approx. € 125 / $163.00Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art HistoryFORTHCOMING

Sacred Images and NormativityContested Forms in Early Modern ArtChiara Franceschini (ed.)

This volume “Contested forms” aims to provide a fi rst exploration of image normativity by means of a series of case studies, which will focus in di�ferent ways on the intersections between the limits of the sacred image and the power of art, especially but not exclusively in Europe, between 1450 and 1650. Each essay will approach the question of normativity in sacred images from di�ferent perspectives.

approx. € 280 p., 80 b/w ills, 30 col. ills, 216 x 280 mm, ISBN 978-2-503-58466-9Hardback: approx. € 115 / $150.00Series: The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe, vol. 1FORTHCOMING

Faith and Knowledge in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia Karoline Kjesrud, Mikael Males (eds)

Covering the late medieval up to the early modern period, this volume o�fers new insights into intellectual culture in Scandinavia, and the remarkable longevity of local beliefs even into the early post-Reformation period.

306 p., 19 col. ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-57900-9Hardback: € 95 / $124.00Series: Knowledge, Scholarship, and Science in the Middle Ages, vol. 1

Music and Theology in the European Reformations David Burn, Grantley Robert McDonald, Joseph Verheyden, Peter De Mey (eds)

A multidisciplinary collection of twenty essays that examine the debates and controversies around music and theology during the period of the European Reformations from both Catholic and various Protestant perspectives.

500 p., 33 b/w ills, 178 x 254 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-58226-9Paperback: € 100 / $130.00Series: Epitome musical

Transmission of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance Outi Merisalo, Susanna Niiranen, Miika Kuha (eds)

This volume explores the Late Medieval and Renaissance transmission of texts of di�ferent genres, languages and periods from the book historical point of view, taking into consideration not only the textual but also the material aspect of the traditions.

239 p., 19 col. ills, 216 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-58156-9Paperback: € 80Series: Bibliologia, vol. 53

Begijnhof 67, B-2300 Turnhout (Belgium) – Tel: +32 14 44 80 20 – Fax: +32 14 42 89 19info@brepols.net – www.brepols.net – www.harveymillerpublishers.com

North-American customers are advised to order English-language titles via: orders@isdistribution.com – www.isdistribution.com

Prices excl. VAT & shipping.

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