St. John the Divine(1st Edition) The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology by JeffreyF. Hamburger Hardcover, 380 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22877-1, ISBN: 0-520-22877-4
"Throughout the Middle Ages, John the Evangelist, identified as the author of both the Book of Revelation and the most profound and theologically informed of the four Gospels, provided monks and nuns with a figure of inspiration and an exemplar of vision and virginity. Rather than the historical apostle, this book's protagonist is a persona of the Evangelist established in theology, the liturgy, and devotional practice: the model mystic, ..."
""Beyond Words" accompanies a collaborative exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; Harvard University s Houghton Library; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Featuring illuminated manuscripts from nineteen Boston-area institutions, this catalog provides a sweeping overview of the history of the book in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as a guide to its production, illumination, functions, and readership. E ..."
"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."
Sign and Design Script as Image in Cross-Cultural Perspective (300–1600 CE) (Dumbarton Oaks Symposia and Colloquia) by JeffreyF. Hamburger, Brigitte Bedos Rezak Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2016 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-407-1, ISBN: 0-88402-407-5
"From antiquity to the modern age, legal, documentary, exegetical, literary, and linguistic traditions have viewed the relationship between image and letter in diverse ways. There is a long history of scholarship examining this relationship, probing the manner and meaning of its dynamics in terms of equivalency, complementarity, and polarity.This volume addresses the pictorial dimension of writing systems from cross-cultural and multidis ..."
Diagramming Devotion(1st Edition) Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s "Poems in Praise of the Cross" (Louise Smith Bross Lecture Series) by JeffreyF. Hamburger Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64281-9, ISBN: 0-226-64281-X
The Mind's Eye(1st Edition) Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages (Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University) by JeffreyF. Hamburger, Anne-Marie Bouché Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2005 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12476-6, ISBN: 0-691-12476-0
The Visual and the Visionary(First Edition) Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany by JeffreyF. Hamburger Hardcover, 608 Pages, Published 1998 by Zone Books ISBN-13: 978-0-942299-45-8, ISBN: 0-942299-45-0
"Case studies consider the theoretical dimensions of diagramming in historical disciplines ranging from philosophy to cosmology. Four introductory essays provide overviews of diagrammatic traditions of the regions explored in this volume."
"Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spiritually of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from an extraordinary and previously unknown group of devotional drawings made by a Benedictine nun for her cloistered companions, Hamburger discusses in unprecedented detail the distinctive visual culture of female communities. The drawings d ..."
The Birth of the Author Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth Century (Hardback) by JeffreyF. Hamburger, J. F. Hamburger Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 2021 by Harvey Miller Publishers, London ISBN-13: 978-0-88844-225-3, ISBN: 0-88844-225-4
""The images devised to accompany medieval commentaries, whether on the Bible or on classical texts, made claims to authority, even inspiration, that at times were even more forceful than those made by the texts themselves."
""This abundantly illustrated volume, a companion to the exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections and its accompanying catalogue, aims to provide a broad overview of patterns of patronage and book production ..."
Diagramming Devotion Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross by JeffreyF. Hamburger 384 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64295-6, ISBN: 0-226-64295-X
"In Peter Eisemann: Feints, edited by Silvio Cassara et al., 19– 27. Milan: Skira,
2006. Virchow, Corinna. “Basel.” In Schreiborte des deutschen Mittelalters:
Skriptorien— Werke— Mäzene, edited by Martin Schubert, 57– 82. Berlin: De
Gruyter ..."
"The history of the book in the late Middle Ages is associated especially with Gutenberg's momentous invention of printing with movable type. Printing, however, hardly replaced the manuscript book overnight; in respect to content, materials, format, decoration, dissemination, and technique, the fifteenth century in German-speaking lands witnessed an extraordinary range of innovation and experimentation. Nonetheless, over a century of sch ..."
"Introduced by means of comprehensive essays by Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger of Harvard University and Margaret M. Manion of the University of Melbourne, this sumptuous volume presents the proceedings of a conference held at the State Library of Victoria in 2008 when that institution arranged an important exhibition of medieval manuscripts. Learned papers presented by an array of prestigious scholars investigate topics such as travel, ..."
"Throughout the Middle Ages, the religious women of Nivelles Abbey governed one of the most venerable and powerful ecclesiastical institutions in the Holy Roman Empire, which played a critical role, not only as the center of the cult of St ..."
Catherine of Siena(1st Edition) The Creation of a Cult (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts) by JeffreyF. Hamburger, Gabriela Signori Hardcover, 342 Pages, Published 2013 by Brepols Publishers ISBN-13: 978-2-503-54415-1, ISBN: 2-503-54415-0
"How does one construct a saint and promote a cult beyond the immediate community in which he or she lived? Italian mendicants had accumulated a good deal of experience in dealing with this politically explosive question. The posthumous description of the life of Francis of Assisi (d. 1226) written by the Master General of the order, Bonaventure (d. 1274), could be regarded as paradigmatic in this regard. A similarly massive intervention ..."