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The Visual and the Visionary

Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany [Hardback]

by Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Author
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Zone Books
Published
December 1998

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This text is an account of the changing roles of images in medieval monasticism from the 12th-century to the Reformation. In nine essays embracing the histories of art, religion, and literature, Jeffrey Hamburger explores the interrelationships between the visual arts and female spirituality in the context of the "cura monialium", the pastoral care of nuns. Used as instruments of instruction and inspiration, images occupied a central place in debates over devotional practice, monastic reform, and mystical expression. Far from supplementing a history of art from which they have been excluded, the images made by and for women shaped that history decisively by defining novel modes of religious expression, above all, the relationship between sight and subjectivity. With this book, the study of female piety and artistic patronage becomes an integral part of the general history of medieval art and spirituality.