The Bishop''s Palace: Architecture and Authority in Medieval Italy
ISBN: 9781501728204
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Bishops -- Dwellings -- Italy; Italy -- Church history -- 476–1400; Palaces -- Italy;

This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller...


Maureen C. Miller is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Formation of a Medieval Church: Ecclesiastical Change in Verona, 950-1150 (winner of the 1993 John Gilmary Shea Prize given by the American Catholic Historical Association), also from Cornell, and Power and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict.

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