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

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

by JeffreyHamburger (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 04 Dec 1998

ISBN 10: 0942299450
ISBN 13: 9780942299458