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

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997] ©1997

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Description xxiv, 318 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm regular print Series California studies in the history of art ; 37 California studies in the history of art ; 37 Contents Patterns of piety-protocols of vision: the visual culture of St. Walburg -- Delineating devotions -- Printed exemplars -- Manuscript models -- Woven work -- Consecration & enclosure -- The sweet rose of sorrow -- Rsoes & remembrance -- Passionate prayer -- Agony, ecstasy, obedience -- Wounding sight -- Exemplary images -- Penetrating vision -- The House of the heart -- Union & communion -- The heart as a house -- Knocking at Heaven's gate -- An interior castle -- Nuns' work -- Ora et Labora: Prayer & work -- The circulation of images -- Conclusion: Vision versus supervision Summary Hamburger's book reconstructs the artistic, literary, and institutional traditions that shaped the lives of cloistered women In illuminating the patterns and protocols of viewing that governed the nuns' devotional and liturgical life, 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 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 Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spiritually of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from an extraordinary and previously unknown group of devotional drawings made by a Benedictine nun for her cloistered companions, Hamburger discusses in unprecedented detail the distinctive visual culture of female communities Analysis Benediktinerinnen-Abtei St. Walburg (Eichstätt, Germany) Christian art and symbolism - Germany - Medieval, 500-1500 Devotional objects - Catholic Church Devotional objects - Germany Nuns as artists - Germany Notes Bibliography: p293-304. _ Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and indexes Subject Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Walburg (Eichstätt, Germany) Benediktinerinnen-Abtei St. Walburg (Eichst©Þtt, Germany) Christian art and symbolism -- Germany -- Eichstätt -- Medieval, 500-1500 Christian art and symbolism -- Germany -- Eichst©Þtt -- Medieval, 500-1500 Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval, 500-1500. Devotional objects -- Catholic Church Devotional objects -- Germany -- Eichstätt. Devotional objects -- Germany -- Eichst©Þtt Nuns as artists -- Germany -- Eichstätt. Nuns as artists -- Germany -- Eichst©Þtt LC no. 96006045 ISBN 0520203860 alkaline paper 9780520203860 alkaline paper

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