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Jeffrey Hamburger Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture Of A Medieval Convent HB
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Country of Origin
- US
- Subtitle
- The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent
- EAN
- 9780520203860
- ISBN
- 9780520203860
- Release Year
- 1997
- Book Title
- Nuns as Artists
- Title
- Nuns as Artists
- ISBN-10
- 0520203860
- Genre
- Arts & Photography
- Topic
- Society & Culture
- Release Date
- 05/30/1997
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520203860
ISBN-13
9780520203860
eBay Product ID (ePID)
399715
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Publication Name
Nuns As Artists : the Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent
Language
English
Subject
Christian Church / History, Christianity / Catholic, Subjects & Themes / Religious, Christianity / General, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year
1997
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Religion, History
Series
California Studies in the History of Art Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
30.3 Oz
Item Length
10.4 in
Item Width
7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
96-006145
Series Volume Number
37
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
List 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 Index
Synopsis
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
NK1655.E35H36 1997
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