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Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg's Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus's Poems in Praise of the Cross

by Jeffrey Hambruger

  • Hardback
  • 384 pages
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • 28.3 x 29 x 3 cm

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For students of medieval art and theology

Explains the role of diagrams in faith study

Uncover how visual tools reveal deeper truth

A brilliant exploration of how medieval diagrams transformed complex theological concepts.

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During the European Middle Ages, diagrams provided a critical tool of analysis in cosmological and theological debates. In addition to drawing relationships among diverse areas of human knowledge and experience, diagrams themselves generated such knowledge in the first place. In Diagramming Devotion, Jeffrey F. Hamburger examines two monumental works that are diagrammatic to their core: a famous set of picture poems of unrivaled complexity by the Carolingian monk Hrabanus Maurus, devoted to the praise of the cross, and a virtually unknown commentary on Hrabanus's work composed almost five hundred years later by the Dominican friar Berthold of Nuremberg. Berthold's profusely illustrated elaboration of Hrabnus translated his predecessor's poems into a series of almost one hundred diagrams. By examining Berthold of Nuremberg's transformation of a Carolingian classic, Hamburger brings modern and medieval visual culture into dialogue, traces important changes in medieval visual culture, and introduces new ways of thinking about diagrams as an enduring visual and conceptual model.
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  • Title

    Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg's Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus's Poems in Praise of the Cross

  • Author

    Jeffrey Hambruger

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    University of Chicago Press

  • Published

    September 2020

  • Weight

    2002g

  • Page Count

    384

  • Dimensions

    28.3 x 29 x 3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780226642819

  • ISBN-10

    022664281X

  • Eden Code

    4974640