by JeffreyHamburger (Author)
This text is an account of the changing roles of images in German medieval monasticism from the 12th-century to the Reformation. The author explores the interrelationships between the visual arts and female spirituality in the context of the "cura monialium", the pastoral care of nuns.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 04 Dec 1998
ISBN 10: 0942299450
ISBN 13: 9780942299458