In 1428, a devastating fire destroyed a schoolhouse in the northern Italian city of Forlì, leaving only a woodcut of the Madonna and Child that had been tacked

Lisa Pon examines the cultural biography of the city of Forlì's miraculous woodcut, the Madonna of the Fire.

The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology—and the relatively rapid emb

This collection of essays engages with a variety of aspects of early modern book culture in the 16th-17th centuries, considered in the Catholic context. The con

Printed artworks were often ephemeral, but in the early modern period, exchanges between print and other media were common, setting off chain reactions of image