The Visual and the Visionary

Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany

By: Jeffrey F. Hamburger

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Hardcover | 4 December 1998

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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 care of nuns.

Used as instruments of instruction and inspiration, images occupied a central, if controversial, 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, especially the relationship between sight and subjectivity. With this book, the study of female piety and artistic patronage becomes an integral part of a general history of medieval art and spirituality.

The Visual and the Visionary was awarded the 1999 Charles Rufus Prize by the College Art Association and the 1999 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art and Music History by the Sixteenth Century Conference.

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Preface and Acknowledgments	p. 9
Introduction: Texts Versus Images: Female Spirituality from an Art Historian's Perspective	p. 13
Art, Enclosure, and the Pastoral Care of Nuns	p. 35
The Visual and the Visionary: The Image in Late Medieval Monastic Devotions	p. 111
Before the Book of Hours: The Development of the Illustrated Prayer Book in Germany	p. 149
The Use of Images in the Pastoral Care of Nuns: The Case of Henry Suso and the Dominicans	p. 197
Medieval Self-fashioning: Authorship, Authority, and Autobiography in Suso's Exemplar	p. 233
The Liber miraculorum of Unterlinden: An Icon in Its Convent Setting	p. 279
Vision and the Veronica	p. 317
"On the Little Bed of Jesus": Pictorial Piety and Monastic Reform	p. 383
The Reformation of Vision: Art and the Dominican Observance in Late Medieval Germany	p. 427
Notes	p. 469
Index of Manuscripts Cited	p. 589
Color Plates	p. 593
Index	p. 603
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