Roger J. Crum is Professor of Art History at the University of Dayton, where he has held the Graul Chair in Arts and Languages. John T. Paoletti is William B. Kenan Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University.

'The result is a fresh vision of Florence's history that will be useful for teaching but that also contains new research. the volume is attractively presented with numerous black and white illustrations and also includes extensive notes, select bibliography and a name and subject index.' History

• Introducion Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti; Part I. The Theatre of Florence: 1. Florentine politics and urban spaces John M. Najemy; 2. Theatres of everyday life Sharon T. Strocchia; Part II. The Public Realm: 3. The Piazza della Signoria as practiced place Stephen J. Milner; 4. Structuring communal history through repeated metaphors of rule Sarah Blake McHam; 5. Corporate beneficence and historical narratives of communal well-being Philip Gavitt; 6. The spaces of plebian ritual and the boundaries of transgression David Rosenthal; 7. Ritual trading at the Florentine wool cloth botteghe Adrienne Atwell; Part III. Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors: 8. Neighborhood as microcosm Nicholas Eckstein; 9. The palace and villa as spaces of patrician self-definition Michael Lingohr; 10. '… full of people of every sort': the domestic interior Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti; Part IV. Men and Women: 11. Mean streets, familiar streets, or the fat woodcarver and the masculine spaces of renaissance Florence Guido Ruggiero; 12. Did women have a space? Natalie Thomas; Part V. The Spaces of the Spiritual: 13. Sacred place and liturgical space: Florence's renaissance churches Robert W. Gaston; 14. Memorial chapels in churches: The privatization and transformation of sacred spaces Jonathan Katz Nelson; 15. The aural space of the sacred in renaissance Florence Peter Howard; 16. Identity and alliance: urban presence, spatial privilege, and Florentine renaissance convents Saundra Weddle; Part VI. Across Space and Time: 17. The workshop as the space of collaborative artisitic production Anabel Thomas; 18. The replicated image in Florence, 1300–1600 Patricia Emison; 19. From the workshop to the academy: the emergence of the artist in renaissance Florence Andrea Bolland.

Roger J. Crum is Professor of Art History at the University of Dayton, where he has held the Graul Chair in Arts and Languages. John T. Paoletti is William B. Kenan Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University.

'The result is a fresh vision of Florence's history that will be useful for teaching but that also contains new research. the volume is attractively presented with numerous black and white illustrations and also includes extensive notes, select bibliography and a name and subject index.' History

• Introducion Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti; Part I. The Theatre of Florence: 1. Florentine politics and urban spaces John M. Najemy; 2. Theatres of everyday life Sharon T. Strocchia; Part II. The Public Realm: 3. The Piazza della Signoria as practiced place Stephen J. Milner; 4. Structuring communal history through repeated metaphors of rule Sarah Blake McHam; 5. Corporate beneficence and historical narratives of communal well-being Philip Gavitt; 6. The spaces of plebian ritual and the boundaries of transgression David Rosenthal; 7. Ritual trading at the Florentine wool cloth botteghe Adrienne Atwell; Part III. Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors: 8. Neighborhood as microcosm Nicholas Eckstein; 9. The palace and villa as spaces of patrician self-definition Michael Lingohr; 10. '… full of people of every sort': the domestic interior Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti; Part IV. Men and Women: 11. Mean streets, familiar streets, or the fat woodcarver and the masculine spaces of renaissance Florence Guido Ruggiero; 12. Did women have a space? Natalie Thomas; Part V. The Spaces of the Spiritual: 13. Sacred place and liturgical space: Florence's renaissance churches Robert W. Gaston; 14. Memorial chapels in churches: The privatization and transformation of sacred spaces Jonathan Katz Nelson; 15. The aural space of the sacred in renaissance Florence Peter Howard; 16. Identity and alliance: urban presence, spatial privilege, and Florentine renaissance convents Saundra Weddle; Part VI. Across Space and Time: 17. The workshop as the space of collaborative artisitic production Anabel Thomas; 18. The replicated image in Florence, 1300–1600 Patricia Emison; 19. From the workshop to the academy: the emergence of the artist in renaissance Florence Andrea Bolland.

Roger J. Crum is Professor of Art History at the University of Dayton, where he has held the Graul Chair in Arts and Languages. John T. Paoletti is William B. Kenan Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University.

'The result is a fresh vision of Florence's history that will be useful for teaching but that also contains new research. the volume is attractively presented with numerous black and white illustrations and also includes extensive notes, select bibliography and a name and subject index.' History

• Introducion Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti; Part I. The Theatre of Florence: 1. Florentine politics and urban spaces John M. Najemy; 2. Theatres of everyday life Sharon T. Strocchia; Part II. The Public Realm: 3. The Piazza della Signoria as practiced place Stephen J. Milner; 4. Structuring communal history through repeated metaphors of rule Sarah Blake McHam; 5. Corporate beneficence and historical narratives of communal well-being Philip Gavitt; 6. The spaces of plebian ritual and the boundaries of transgression David Rosenthal; 7. Ritual trading at the Florentine wool cloth botteghe Adrienne Atwell; Part III. Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors: 8. Neighborhood as microcosm Nicholas Eckstein; 9. The palace and villa as spaces of patrician self-definition Michael Lingohr; 10. '… full of people of every sort': the domestic interior Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti; Part IV. Men and Women: 11. Mean streets, familiar streets, or the fat woodcarver and the masculine spaces of renaissance Florence Guido Ruggiero; 12. Did women have a space? Natalie Thomas; Part V. The Spaces of the Spiritual: 13. Sacred place and liturgical space: Florence's renaissance churches Robert W. Gaston; 14. Memorial chapels in churches: The privatization and transformation of sacred spaces Jonathan Katz Nelson; 15. The aural space of the sacred in renaissance Florence Peter Howard; 16. Identity and alliance: urban presence, spatial privilege, and Florentine renaissance convents Saundra Weddle; Part VI. Across Space and Time: 17. The workshop as the space of collaborative artisitic production Anabel Thomas; 18. The replicated image in Florence, 1300–1600 Patricia Emison; 19. From the workshop to the academy: the emergence of the artist in renaissance Florence Andrea Bolland.