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Author Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957-

Title The visual and the visionary : art and female spirituality in late medieval Germany / Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Published New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (608 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-588) and indexes
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Subject Devotional objects -- Germany -- History
Devotional objects -- Catholic Church -- History
Christian art and symbolism -- Germany -- Medieval, 500-1500
Nuns as artists -- Germany -- History
Devotional objects -- Germany
Devotional objects -- Catholic Church.
Nuns as artists -- Germany
Devotional objects -- Catholic Church.
Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval.
Devotional objects.
Nuns as artists.
Beeldende kunsten.
Vrouwen.
Spiritualiteit.
Germany.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585087482
9780585087481
Other Titles Art and female spirituality in late medieval Germany