Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross. Chicago; London, The University of Chicago Press, 2020
Celeste Maria Lourenço da Silva de Oliveira Pedro
The case study is presented in the title: Hrabanus Maurus’s (ca. 780-856) In honorem sanctae crucis 810) and Berthold of Nuremberg’s two-part work Liber de misteriis et laudibus sancta (1292) supplement interemerate Virginis genitrices Dei Domini nostril Ihesu (1294)) are confronted dissected; use word “transformation” key to analytical interpretive possibilities concerning medieval formulas author presents (both textual imagetic). Close five hundred years separate carmina figurata Carolingian abbot text-images Dominican lector both follow on antique traditions. With more than two pictures diagrams illuminations from a multitude codices, architectural details religious objects, Hamburger furnishes our understanding transformation visual cultures (largely beyond Hranabus Berthold’s) centrality artistic productions.
Revista española de filosofía medieval