An analysis of Renaissance Florentine convents and their influence on the city’s social, economic, and political history. The 15th century was a time of drama

Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medie

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.

While there has been a great tradition of scholarship in medieval manuscripts, most studies have focused on the details of manuscript production by male copyist

"First peoples: new directions in ethnic studies"