Nuns as artists : the visual culture of a medieval convent / Jeffrey F. Hamburger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957-

Series:

California studies in the history of art ; 37.

California studies in the history of art ; 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Walburg (Eichstätt, Germany).

Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500--Germany--Eichstätt.

Christian art and symbolism.

Devotional objects--Germany--Eichstätt.

Devotional objects.

Devotional objects--Catholic Church.

Nuns as artists--Germany--Eichstätt.

Nuns as artists.

Devotional objects--Catholic Church--Medieval, 500-1500--Germany--Eichstèatt.

Devotional objects--Germany--Eichstèatt.

Christian art and symbolism--Eichstèatt--Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 318 p. ) ill. (some col.), maps ;

Other Title:

Visual culture of a medieval convent

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Patterns of Piety-Protocols of Vision: The Visual Culture of St. Walburg

II. The Sweet Rose of Sorrow

III. Wounding Sight

IV. The House of the Heart

V. Nun's Work

Conclusion : Vision Versus Supervision

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index of biblical Citations

Index of Manuscripts Cited

General Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-304) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780520917378

0520917375

9780585108674

0585108676

Publisher Number:

2027/heb33202 hdl