Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent Volume 37

by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Jeffrey Hamburger

Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from a previously unknown group of late-fifteenth-century devotional drawings made by a Benedictine nun for her cloistered companions, Hamburger discusses the distinctive visual culture of female communities. The drawings discovered by Hamburger and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520203860
• ISBN13: 9780520203860
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 10.2"