Nuns As Artists - The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent

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List of contents

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 

About the author

Jeffrey 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).

Summary

Presents a study of the art of female monasticism that explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. This book discusses the distinctive visual culture of female communities.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey Hamburger, Jeffrey F Hamburger, Jeffrey F. Hamburger
• Assisted by: Jeffrey Hamburger (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.1997
• EAN: 9780520203860
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20386-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: California Studies in the History of Art; California Studies in the Hist; California Studies in the History of Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Europe, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Religion & beliefs, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval