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The visual and the visionary : art and female spirituality in late medieval Germany
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The visual and the visionary : art and female spirituality in late medieval Germany

Author: Jeffrey F Hamburger
Publisher: New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1998.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jeffrey F Hamburger
ISBN: 0942299450 9780942299458
OCLC Number: 36900882
Description: 608 p., 5 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Contents: Texts versus images: female spirituality from an art historian's perspective -- Art, enclosure, and the pastoral care of nuns -- The visual and the visionary: the image in late medieval monastic devotions -- Before the Book of hours: the development of the illustrated prayer book in Germany -- The use of images in the pastoral care of nuns: the case of Henry Suso and the Dominicans -- Medieval self-fashioning: authorship, authority, and autobiography in Suso's Exemplar -- The Liber miraculorum of Unterlinden: an icon in its convent setting -- Vision and the Veronica -- "On the little bed of Jesus"; pictorial piety and monastic reform -- The reformation of vision: art and the Dominican observance in late medieval Germany.
Responsibility: Jeffrey F. Hamburger.

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