DIAGRAMMING DEVOTION. Berthold of Nuremberg's Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus's Poems in Praise of the Cross

Hamburger, Jeffrey F.

ISBN 10: 022664281X / ISBN 13: 9780226642819

Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2020

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1st edition, 2020. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. 4to., 418 pp., bound in publishers red cloth boards with illustrated dust jacket. Minor signs of shelf wear only, text unmarked. Jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DIAGRAMMING DEVOTION. Berthold of Nuremberg's Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus's Poems in Praise of the Cross
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 022664281X
• ISBN 13: 9780226642819
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
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Synopsis

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 the Carolingian monk Hrabanus Maurus, devoted to the praise of the cross, and a virtually unknown commentary on Hrabanus’s work composed almost five hundred years later by the Dominican friar Berthold of Nuremberg. Berthold’s profusely illustrated elaboration of Hrabnus translated his predecessor’s poems into a series of almost one hundred diagrams. By examining Berthold of Nuremberg’s transformation of a Carolingian classic, Hamburger brings modern and medieval visual culture into dialogue, traces important changes in medieval visual culture, and introduces new ways of thinking about diagrams as an enduring visual and conceptual model.

About the Author

Jeffrey F. Hamburger is the Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including Painting the Page in the Age of Print.