Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., is professor of medieval history at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the author of The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence and co-editor of Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living: Essays in Memory of David Herlihy. His Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in the Italian Renaissance and Death and Property in Siena, winner of the Catholic Historical Association's Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History, are also available from Johns Hopkins.

This is a rich, provocative book that builds important bridges between local Italian and European studies, and establishes new conversational ground between historians of religion, society, and art. Journal of Interdisciplinary History The results of Cohn's research add weight to an interpretation, now out of favor, focusing on the rise of individualism. This is all to the good and should elicit lively responses. American Historical Review

• List of Tables and IllustrationsAcknowledgementsA Note on Names and DatesChapter 1. IntroductionPart I: The Structure of PietyChapter 2. Pious ChoicesChapter 3. The Structure of Pious BequestsPart II: Directions from the GraveChapter 4. The BodyChapter 5. PropertyPart III: ArtChapter 6. Art and Masses Chapter 7. PaintingsChapter 8. ConclusionAppendix A: The SourcesAppendix B: Catalog Numbers of the ASF, Notarile Antecosimiano, Sampled for This BookAppendix C: A Gazetteer of Villages and Provincial Towns Mentioned in the TextNotesBibliographyIndex

Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., is professor of medieval history at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the author of The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence and co-editor of Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living: Essays in Memory of David Herlihy. His Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in the Italian Renaissance and Death and Property in Siena, winner of the Catholic Historical Association's Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian History, are also available from Johns Hopkins.

This is a rich, provocative book that builds important bridges between local Italian and European studies, and establishes new conversational ground between historians of religion, society, and art. Journal of Interdisciplinary History The results of Cohn's research add weight to an interpretation, now out of favor, focusing on the rise of individualism. This is all to the good and should elicit lively responses. American Historical Review

• List of Tables and IllustrationsAcknowledgementsA Note on Names and DatesChapter 1. IntroductionPart I: The Structure of PietyChapter 2. Pious ChoicesChapter 3. The Structure of Pious BequestsPart II: Directions from the GraveChapter 4. The BodyChapter 5. PropertyPart III: ArtChapter 6. Art and Masses Chapter 7. PaintingsChapter 8. ConclusionAppendix A: The SourcesAppendix B: Catalog Numbers of the ASF, Notarile Antecosimiano, Sampled for This BookAppendix C: A Gazetteer of Villages and Provincial Towns Mentioned in the TextNotesBibliographyIndex