The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany

by Jeffrey F. Hamburger

The Visual and the Visionary puts the study of female spirituality on a new footing and provides a nuanced account of the changing role of images in medieval monasticism from the twelfth century to the Reformation. In ten essays embracing the history 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942299450
• ISBN13: 9780942299458
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.4" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher