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Nuns as artists: the visual culture of a medieval convent

Jeffrey F. Hamburger
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Preface and Acknowledgments (page xix)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 1)
  • I. PATTERNS OF PIETY—PROTOCOLS OF VISION: THE VISUAL CULTURE OF ST. WALBURG (page 7)
  • Delineating Devotions (page 10)
  • Printed Exemplars (page 20)
  • Manuscript Models (page 24)
  • Woven Work (page 37)
  • Consecration and Enclosure (page 51)
  • II. THE SWEET ROSE OF SORROW (page 63)
  • Roses and Remembrance (page 66)
  • Passionate Prayer (page 80)
  • Agony, Ecstasy, Obedience (page 94)
  • III. WOUNDING SIGHT (page 101)
  • Exemplary Images (page 102)
  • Penetrating Vision (page 128)
  • IV. THE HOUSE OF THE HEART (page 137)
  • Union and Communion (page 138)
  • The Heart as a House (page 151)
  • Knocking at Heaven's Gate (page 158)
  • An Interior Castle (page 168)
  • V. NUNS WORK (page 177)
  • Ora et Labora: Prayer and Work (page 181)
  • The Circulation of Images (page 192)
  • CONCLUSION: VISION VERSUS SUPERVISION (page 213)
  • Abbreviations (page 223)
  • Notes (page 225)
  • Bibliography (page 293)
  • Index of Biblical Citations (page 305)
  • Index of Manuscripts Cited (page 307)
  • General Index (page 309)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
UTQ 69.1 (Winter. 1999/2000): 186-187 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/516683/pdf
PAR 15.2 (Jan. 1998):207-210 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/473780/pdf
CHR 84.1 (Jan. 1998): 96-97 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/443469/pdf
MEDE 67.1 (1998): 120-121 http://www.jstor.org/stable/43629968
HR 38.4 (May. 1999): 407-408 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3176333
ZDL 66.3 (1999): 369-371 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40504549
JR 78.4 (Oct. 1998): 622-623 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1206590
MYQ 24.2 (Jun. 1998): 75-77 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20717334
STI 20 (1999): 219-223 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23923562
CH 67.1 (Mar. 1998): 145-146 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3170800
JAAR 67.2 (Jun. 1999): 484-487 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1465752
SP 75.1 (Jan. 2000): 189-191 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2887451
WRB 15.6 (Mar. 1998): 24-25 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4022911
ZfdA 127.3 (1998): 367-370 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20659004
WAJ 20.1 (Spring- Summer. 1999): 43-46 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1358844
RQ 51.4 (Winter. 1998): 1363-1365 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2901987
JRH 39.1 (Spring. 2000): 86-87 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27501188
ADJALS 17.1 (Spring. 1998): 61 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27948954
AB 80.1 (Mar. 1998): 172-176 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3051258
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Published: c1997
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520203860 (hardcover)
  • 9780520917378 (ebook)
Subject
  • Religion
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