With ranking scholars from the U.S. and the Continent, this volume explores rituals of birth and death, daily parish life, lay-clerical relations, and relations with Jews and Muslims through a thousand years and many lands. Includes 50 illustrations, maps, and an 8-page color gallery.
Daniel E. Bornstein is Professor of History at Texas A&M University. An historian of medieval and Renaissance Italy, Daniel Bornstein works on the role of religion in everyday life. He is co-editor (with Roberto Rusconi) of Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (1996, University of Chicago Press).