Jeffrey N Hamburger

Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Jeffrey F. Hamburger (born 1957) is an American art historian specialising in medieval religious art and illuminated manuscripts. In 2000 he joined the faculty of Harvard University ...

Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections

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 th...

Catherine of Siena: The Creation of a Cult (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts)

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 b...

Sign and Design: Script as Image in Cross-Cultural Perspective (300-1600 CE) (Dumbarton Oaks Symposia and Colloquia)

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 ...

St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology

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 apos...

Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries

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

The Visual and the Visionary adds a new dimension to the study of female spirituality, with its nuanced account of the changing roles of images in medieval monasticism from the twelfth century to the Reformation. In nine essays embracing the histories of art, religion, and literature, Jeffrey Hambur...

The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages (Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University)

The Mind's Eye focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature--issues long central to the study of medieval art, yet ripe for reconsideration. Essays by leading scholars from many fields examine the illustration of theological commentaries, the use of images to expound o...

Script as Image (Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts)

In the Middle Ages, writing conveyed far more than information. In contradistinction to the modern separation of image and text and, by implication, form and content, which was reified with the invention of printing, illuminated manuscripts made images out of words. In consonance with Christian doct...

The Mind`s Eye: Art And Theological Argument in the Medieval West

The Mind`s Eye: Art And Theological Argument in the Medieval West

Nuns As Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent

St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology

Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow