{"product_id":"nuns-as-artists-37-jeffrey-hamburger-9780520203860","title":"Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent Volume 37","description":"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 genre to which they belong have never been given serious consideration by art historians, yet they serve as icons of the nuns' religious vocation in all its complexity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Setting the drawings and related imagery--manuscript illumination, prints, textiles, and metalwork--within the context of religious life and reform in late medieval Germany, Hamburger reconstructs the artistic, literary, and institutional traditions that shaped the lives of cloistered women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHamburger convincingly demonstrates the overwhelming importance of \"seeing\" in devotional practice, challenging traditional assumptions about the primacy of text over image in monastic piety. His presentation of the \"visual culture of the convent\" makes a fundamental contribution to the history of medieval art and, more generally, of late medieval monasticism and spirituality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey Hamburger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520203860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520203860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/25\/2002 pg. 40","brand":"Jeffrey Hamburger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43919937995007,"sku":"9780520203860","price":78.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0da52525-0cac-4c67-8148-187834e70842.jpg?v=1680812736","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nuns-as-artists-37-jeffrey-hamburger-9780520203860","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}