Michael A. Vargas is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York at New Paltz, USA. He is the author of Taming a Brood of Vipers: Conflict and Change in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents (2011).

• 1. Introduction.- I. Inventory.- 2. Events and Accidents.- 3. Princes and People.- 4. Patrons, Protectors, and Creative Defenders.- 5. Castle, Coast, and Cathedral.- II. Making Meaning.- 6. Decadence and Renaissance.- 7. Medievalizing and Modernizing.- 8. Fighting Words. 9. Epilogue: In an October of Another Year.

Michael A. Vargas is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York at New Paltz, USA. He is the author of Taming a Brood of Vipers: Conflict and Change in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents (2011).

• 1. Introduction.- I. Inventory.- 2. Events and Accidents.- 3. Princes and People.- 4. Patrons, Protectors, and Creative Defenders.- 5. Castle, Coast, and Cathedral.- II. Making Meaning.- 6. Decadence and Renaissance.- 7. Medievalizing and Modernizing.- 8. Fighting Words. 9. Epilogue: In an October of Another Year.

Michael A. Vargas is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York at New Paltz, USA. He is the author of Taming a Brood of Vipers: Conflict and Change in Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convents (2011).

• 1. Introduction.- I. Inventory.- 2. Events and Accidents.- 3. Princes and People.- 4. Patrons, Protectors, and Creative Defenders.- 5. Castle, Coast, and Cathedral.- II. Making Meaning.- 6. Decadence and Renaissance.- 7. Medievalizing and Modernizing.- 8. Fighting Words. 9. Epilogue: In an October of Another Year.