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Renaissance

Piety in the Renaissance Home

14 Jan 2013
The notion of the Renaissance as a ‘secular age’ is to be challenged by three University of Cambridge researchers after securing €2.3m funding from...
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16th century votive offerings

Objects of devotion

02 Feb 2012
Why did Renaissance shoppers fill their baskets with rosaries, crucifixes, Christ-dolls and devotional paintings? A new study by historian Dr Mary...
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