Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard University
Areas of expertise
- - Medieval manuscript illumination
- - The history of attitudes towards images
- - Art, mysticism and theology
- - Devotional imagery
- - Late medieval German religious literature
Major works
Liturgical Life and Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425: Inscription and Illumination in the Choir Books of a North German Dominican Convent (Münster: Aschendorff, 2016), co-authored with Margot Fassler, Susan Marti & Eva Schlotheuber; Unter Druck: Deutsche Buchmalerei im Zeitalter Gutenbergs (Vienna/Luzern: Quaternio Verlag, 2015), co-authored with Robert Suckale and Gude Suckale-Redlefsen, with a contribution from Eberhard König; The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin (Bern: Urs Graf Verlag, 2015), co-authored with Nigel Palmer; Sign and Design: Script as Image in a Cross-Cultural Perspective, ed. Jeffrey F. Hamburger & Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., 2015); Script as Image, Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts 21 (Leuven: Peeters, 2014); Catharine of Siena: The Creation of a Cult, ed. Jeffrey F. Hamburger & Gabriela Signori, Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts 13 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013); ‘Haec figura demonstrat’. Diagramme in einem Pariser Exemplar von Lothars von Segni ,De missarum mysteriis’ aus dem frühen 13. Jahrhundert, Wolfgang Stammler Gastprofessur für Germanische Philologie: Vorträge 19 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013); The Iconicity of Script: Writing as Image in the Middle Ages, special issue of Word & Image 23/3 (2011); Leaves from Paradise: The Cult of John the Evangelist at the Dominican Convent of Paradies bei Soest, Houghton Library Studies, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Houghton Library, distributed by Harvard University Press), 2008; Crown and Veil: The Art of Female Monasticism in the Middle Ages, co-edited with Susan Marti (translation of essays from the catalogue Krone und Schleier. Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöster), forward by Caroline Walker Bynum, trans. Dietlinde Hamburger (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008); Frauen - Kloster - Kunst: Neue Forschungen zur Kulturgeschichte des Mittelalters. Internationales Kolloquium im Zusammenhang mit Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöster, Die Wolfsburg, Mülheim/Ruhr, co-edited with Carola Jäggi, Susan Marti, Hedwig Röckelein, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007); Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern (Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2005). International loan exhibition, Kunst- und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, and Ruhrland Museum, Essen, March 17-July 3, 2005, co-conceived with Jan Gerchow and Robert Suckale; The Mind’s Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Medieval West (Princeton: Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, 2005), co-edited with Anne-Marie Bouché; Die Ottheinrich-Bibel. Kommentar zur Faksimile-Ausgabe der Handchrift Cgm 8010/1.2 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München (Luzern: Faksimile-Verlag, 2002), co-authored with Brigitte Gullath, Karin Schneider, & Robert Suckale; St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002). College Art Association, Millard Meiss Publication Grant, 2000; The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (New York: Zone Books, 1998); Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996); The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland ca. 1300 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990).
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