Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr.

Contents:The Pelham family and the Lancastrian usurpation, July-September 1399 / J.M.W. Bean. --Michelangelo's sacrifice on the Sistine ceiling / James Beck. --Raising capital and funding the Pope's debt / Melissa Meriam Bullard. --Church patronage in France on the eve of the reformation / Marilyn Manera Edelstein. --The "Lord God's" sun in Pico and Newton / Edward A. Gosselin. --The humanist, the banker, and the condottiere: an unpublished letter of Cosimo and Lorenzo dé Medici written by Leonardo Bruni / James Hankins. --Why did the codex supplant the book-role? / William V. Harris. --"Love conquers all": the conversion, asceticism, and altruism of St. Caterina of Genoa / Kenneth Jorgensen, S.J. --Disciplina: the monastic and clerical origins of European civility / Dilwyn Knox. --Alexander of Aphrodisas, Gianfrancesco Beati and the problem of Metaphysics [a (romanized form)] / Jill Kraye. --The life of canons in the sixteenth-century castile / Constance Jones Mathers. --The fraticelli and clerical wealth in quattrocentro Rome / John Monfasani. Just wars and evil empires: Erasmus and the Turks / Ronald G. Musto. --Dressing down the dressed-up: reproving feminine attire in renaissance Florence / Ronald Rainey. --Reconsidering apprenticeship in sixteenth-century London / Steve Rappaport. --Veneral Hermeneutics: reading Titian's Venus of Urbino / David Rosand. --The pamphlet as a source for French history, 1559-1572 / Leona Rostenberg. --The origins of Columbia University's collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts / Robert Somerville.