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Long considered marginal to mainstream history, nuns and canonesses in fact had a profound influence on...

The Visual and the Visionary adds a new dimension to the study of female spirituality, with its nuanced account of the changing roles of images in medieval monasticism from the twelfth 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...

Der diagrammatische Modus stellt eines der wichtigsten Merkmale religioser Kunst des Mittelalters dar. Dieses Buch befasst sich mit einem der spektakularsten Beispiele, der Reihe von Raddiagrammen, die die Handschriften von 'De missarum mysteriis' begleiten, einer einflussreichen Erklarung der Messliturgie, die in Rom zwischen 1195-1197 von Lothar von Segni (ca. 1160-1216) kurz vor seiner Wahl zum Papst (Innozenz III.) verfasst wurde.

The Mind's Eye focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature--issues long central to the study of medieval art, yet ripe for reconsideration. Essays by leading scholars from many fields examine the illustration of theological commentaries, the use of images to expound or disseminate doctrine, the role of images within theological discourse, the development of doctrine in response to images, and the place of vision and the visual in theological thought.

At issue are the ways in which theologians responded to the images that we call art and...

From antiquity to the modern age, legal, documentary, exegetical, literary, and linguistic traditions have viewed the relationship between image and letter in diverse ways. There is a long history of scholarship examining this relationship, probing the manner and meaning of its dynamics in terms of equivalency, complementarity, and polarity.

This volume addresses the pictorial dimension of writing systems from cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives. Historians--including specialists in art and literature--paleographers, and anthropologists consider imagistic scripts of the...