Diana Bullen Presciutti, Ph.D. (2008), University of Michigan, is Lecturer of Italian Renaissance art and visual culture at the University of Essex. She is the author of Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy (Ashgate, 2015).

"The protocols surrounding ceremonial – both public and private – have deep roots, reaching back for several centuries. Questions about the seniority of election or admission and the appropriate place of an individual in the formal life of an institution have a long history. Precedence and positions of seniority continue to regulate public events. Such questions are no less topical in corporate bodies, such as governmental, educational and religious institutions. In such an environment place is invested with a particular significance. A consideration of these topics is explored in this excellent collection of studies, ranging from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Space, place and motion are considered in the context of religious fraternities, guilds and companies... This is a pleasing and fine collection of stimulating papers which will be warmly welcomed by students of urban and religious history."Michael Robson, University of Cambridge, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 69.4 (2018).

Diana Bullen Presciutti, Ph.D. (2008), University of Michigan, is Lecturer of Italian Renaissance art and visual culture at the University of Essex. She is the author of Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy (Ashgate, 2015).

"The protocols surrounding ceremonial – both public and private – have deep roots, reaching back for several centuries. Questions about the seniority of election or admission and the appropriate place of an individual in the formal life of an institution have a long history. Precedence and positions of seniority continue to regulate public events. Such questions are no less topical in corporate bodies, such as governmental, educational and religious institutions. In such an environment place is invested with a particular significance. A consideration of these topics is explored in this excellent collection of studies, ranging from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Space, place and motion are considered in the context of religious fraternities, guilds and companies... This is a pleasing and fine collection of stimulating papers which will be warmly welcomed by students of urban and religious history."Michael Robson, University of Cambridge, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 69.4 (2018).

Diana Bullen Presciutti, Ph.D. (2008), University of Michigan, is Lecturer of Italian Renaissance art and visual culture at the University of Essex. She is the author of Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy (Ashgate, 2015).

"The protocols surrounding ceremonial – both public and private – have deep roots, reaching back for several centuries. Questions about the seniority of election or admission and the appropriate place of an individual in the formal life of an institution have a long history. Precedence and positions of seniority continue to regulate public events. Such questions are no less topical in corporate bodies, such as governmental, educational and religious institutions. In such an environment place is invested with a particular significance. A consideration of these topics is explored in this excellent collection of studies, ranging from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Space, place and motion are considered in the context of religious fraternities, guilds and companies... This is a pleasing and fine collection of stimulating papers which will be warmly welcomed by students of urban and religious history."Michael Robson, University of Cambridge, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 69.4 (2018).