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Overview"Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from a previously unknown group of late-fifteenth-century devotional drawings made by a Benedictine nun for her cloistered companions, Hamburger discusses the distinctive visual culture of female communities. The drawings discovered by Hamburger and the genre to which they belong have never been given serious consideration by art historians, yet they serve as icons of the nuns' religious vocation in all its complexity. Setting the drawings and related imagery-manuscript illumination, prints, textiles, and metalwork-within the context of religious life and reform in late medieval Germany, Hamburger reconstructs the artistic, literary, and institutional traditions that shaped the lives of cloistered women. Hamburger convincingly demonstrates the overwhelming importance of ""seeing"" in devotional practice, challenging traditional assumptions about the primacy of text over image in monastic piety. His presentation of the ""visual culture of the convent"" makes a fundamental contribution to the history of medieval art and, more generally, of late medieval monasticism and spirituality." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeffrey HamburgerPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 37 Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.089kg ISBN: 9780520203860ISBN 10: 0520203860 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 30 May 1997 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION I. PATTERNS OF PIETY PROTOCOLS OF VISION:THE VISUAL CULTURE OF ST. WALBURG Delineating Devotions Printed Exemplars Manuscript Models Woven Work Consecration and Enclosure II. THE SWEET ROSE OF SORROW Roses and Remembrance Passionate Prayer Agony, Ecstasy, Obedience III. WOUNDING SIGHT Exemplary Images Penetrating Vision IV. THE HOUSE OF THE HEART Union and Communion The Heart as a House Knocking at Heaven's Gate An Interior Castle V. NUNS' WORK Ora et Labora: Prayer and Work The Circulation of Images CONCLUSION:VISION VERSUS SUPERVISION Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index of Biblical Citations Index of Manuscripts Cited General IndexReviewsHamburger has conquered a new province of medieval art. Thanks to his efforts nuns as artists will be no longer overlooked. -- New York Review of Books Author InformationJeffrey F. Hamburger is the Irving E. Houck Associate Professor in the Humanities at Oberlin College and the author of The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300 (1990). Among his several honors are the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities (1991), and the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America (1994). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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