Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. PREFACE xi
5. CONTRIBUTORS xiii
6. PART I. Introduction
7. ONE. Patronage in the Renaissance: An Exploratory Approach 3
8. PART II. Patronage in the Church and State
9. TWO. Court Patronage and Government Policy: The Jacobean Dilemma 27
10. THREE. Corruption and the Moral Boundaries of Patronage in the Renaissance 47
11. FOUR. Religion and the Lay Patron in Reformation England 65
12. PART III. Patronage and the Arts
13. FIVE. Henry VII and the Origins of Tudor Patronage 117
14. SIX. The Political Failure of Stuart Cultural Patronage 165
15. Literature
16. SEVEN. Literary Patronage in Elizabethan England: The Early Phase 191
17. EIGHT. John Donne and the Rewards of Patronage 207
18. NINE. Sir Walter Ralegh and the Literature of Clientage 235
19. Theatre
20. TEN. The Royal Theatre and the Role of King 261
21. ELEVEN. Women as Patrons of English Renaissance Drama 274
22. The Visual Arts
23. TWELVE. Artists, Patrons, and Advisers in the Italian Renaissance 293
24. THIRTEEN. The Birth of "Artistic License": The Dissatisfied Patron in the Early Renaissance 344
25. FOURTEEN. Patterns of Preference: Patronage of Sixteenth- Century Architects by the Venetian Patriciate 354
26. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE 381
27. INDEX 383