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A highly-illustrated history and survey of centers of book production and use within the Holy Roman Empire over the course of seven hundred years.

During the European Middle Ages, diagrams provided a critical tool of analysis in cosmological and theological debates. In addition to drawing relationships among diverse areas of human knowledge and experience, diagrams themselves generated such knowledge in the first place. In Diagramming Devotion, Jeffrey F. Hamburger examines two monumental works that are diagrammatic to their core: a famous set of picture poems of unrivaled complexity by ...

Zwanzig Beiträge in englischer und in deutscher Sprache präsentieren die jüngsten Forschungsergebnisse zur mitteleuropäischen Buchkunst des sogenannten "langen 15. Jahrhunderts" von der Zeit der Prager Wenzelswerkstätten bis hin zur Zeit des jungen Dürer. Nicht zuletzt hatte in diesem Jahrhundert die Erfindung des Johannes Gutenberg einen entscheidenden Wandel der Herstellung, des Vertriebs und sukzessive auch der Ästhetik des Buchs herbeigefü...

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Hamburger's singular discovery of a group of devotional drawings made by an anonymous nun . . . is here presented with magisterial learning, theoretical sophistication, and deep human sympathy."--V. A. Kolve, University of California, Los Angeles

Der diagrammatische Modus stellt eines der wichtigsten Merkmale religiöser Kunst des Mittelalters dar. Diagramme erfreuten sich im 12. Jahrhundert einer besonderen Beliebtheit. Daher ist es auffallend, dass eines der spektakulärsten Beispiele von diagrammatischer Darstellung verbunden mit einem höchst einflussreichen Text bisher relativ unbemerkt geblieben ist. Es handelt sich hierbei um die Reihe von Raddiagrammen, die ausgewählte Handschrift...

Written by an international team consisting of two art historians, an historian and a musicologist, this study explores the intellectual, scribal, artistic and musical culture of the Dominican nuns of Paradies from a variety of perspectives. Taking as its subject a little-known group of fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century liturgical manuscripts from the Dominican convent of Paradies bei Soest (Westphalia), the book also offers a revisionar...

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Bibliography of James H. Marrow, Abbreviations, Alfred Acres - Elsewhere in Early Netherlandish Painting, Jonathan J. Alexander - A Shepherdess on a Swing in a Netherlandish Book of Hours, Francois Avril - Un nouveau manuscrit de Jean Bourdichon: Les Heures de Charles de Martigny, eveque dAeElne, Gabriele Bartz - Adam wird ins Paradies getragen, Marina Belozerskaya - Good Dog: Model Canines in Renaissance Manuscripts, Adelaide Bennett - Christ...

Crown and Veil offers a broad introduction to the history and visual culture of female monasticism in the Middle Ages, from the earliest communities of Late Antiquity to the Reformation. Scholars from numerous disciplines offer a wide range of perspectives not to be found in any other single book on the subject, placing the art, architecture, literature, liturgy, religious practices, and economic foundations of these communities within a wide ...

A pair of leaves recently acquired by Houghton Library presents an opportunity to examine the illuminated sequence composed in honor of John the Evangelist, Verbum dei, deo natum, within its broader cultural context. Written and illuminated at the Dominican nunnery of Paradies bei Soest in Westfalia as part of a set of liturgical books that are among the most elaborate of their kind from the entire Middle Ages, the richly decorated fragments p...