The Visual and the Visionary
Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany
The Visual and the Visionary adds a new dimension to the study of femalespirituality, with its nuanced account of the changing roles of images in medievalmonasticism from the twelfth century to the Reformation. In nine essays embracingthe histories of art, religion, and literature, Jeffrey Hamburger explores theinterrelationships between the visual arts and female spirituality in the context ofthe cura monialium, the pastoral care of nuns. Used as instruments of instructionand inspiration, images occupied a central place in debates over devotionalpractice, monastic reform, and mystical expression. Far from supplementing a historyof art from w…
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- ISBN: 978-0-942299-45-8
- EAN: 9780942299458
- Produktnummer: 9552743
- Verlag: Zone Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 608 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B28.9 cm x D5.0 cm 1'580 g
- Gewicht: 1580
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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