Renaissance Florence: A Social History Book

	Introduction : Florence - the dynamics of space in a Renaissance city	1
1	Florentine politics and urban spaces	19
2	Theaters of everyday life	55
3	The Florentine Piazza della Signoria as practiced place	83
4	Structuring communal history through repeated metaphors of rule	104
5	Corporate beneficence and historical narratives of communal well-being	138
6	The spaces of plebeian ritual and the boundaries of transgression	161
7	Ritual trading as the Florentine wool-cloth Botteghe	182
8	Neighborhood as microcosm	219
9	The place of villa as spaces of patrician self-definition	240
10	"... full of people of every sort" : the domestic interior	273
11	Mean streets, familiar streets, or the fat woodcarver and the masculine spaces of Renaissance Florence	295
12	Did woman have a space?	311
13	Sacred place and liturgical space : Florence's Renaissance churches	331
14	Memorial chapels in churches : the privatization and transformation of sacred spaces	353
15	The aural space of the sacred in Renaissance Florence	376
16	Identity and alliance : urban presence, spatial privilege, and Florentine Renaissance convents	394
17	The workshop as the space of collaborative artistic production	415
18	The replicated image in Florence, 1300-1600	431
19	From the workshop to the academy : the emergence of the artist in Renaissance Florence	454