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

by JeffreyHamburger (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

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  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.