Dear colleagues,

I am delighted to announce that Ann Matchette’s chapter in the Material Renaissance volume has been short-listed for the Chord New Research prize for the best article on the history of retailing or distribution – the winner will be announced on 9 September.

For more information see, http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/prize2009.html

Colleagues may also be interested in the following forthcoming publication:

Title: Domestic and Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe
Author: Evangelisti, Silvia (ed)
Price: $99.95
ISBN: 9780754656470
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. 24cm., hardcover, ca. 256pp. illus. Contents: Introduction, Sandra Cavallo and Silvia Evangelisti; Part I Organising and Representing Spaces: A temporary home: Bramante''s conclave hall for Julius II, Henry Dietrich Fernández; Renaissance graffiti. The case of the ducal palace of Urbino, Raffaella Sarti; The Oxford college as household, 1580-1640, Louise Durning; Domestic spatial economies and Dutch charitable institutions in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Jane Kromm; The housing of institutional architecture: searching for a domestic holy in post-Tridentine Italian convents, Helen Hills. Part II The Meaning and Use of Objects: From court to cloister and back again: Margherita Gonzaga, Caterina de'' Medici and Lucrina Fetti at the convent of Saint Orsola in Mantua, Molly Bourne; Between spiritual and material culture: male and female objects at the Portuguese court 1480-1580, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá; The garland pictures'' reception in 17th-century Flanders and Italy, Susan Merriam; A home fit for children: the material possessions of Amsterdam orphans, Anne E.C. McCants; Bibliography; Index. Publication scheduled for December 2009

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Best wishes,

Evelyn