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Author:   Jeffrey Hamburger
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.678kg
ISBN:  

9780520228771

ISBN 10:   0520228774
Pages:   347
Publication Date:   26 September 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

"Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION John as Model Mystic and Mystagogue ONE ""In principio"": John as Theologian of the Logos TWO ""Theologus noster"": The Deification of John THREE ""Joint Heirs with Christ"": The Two St. Johns FOUR ""The Seal of Resemblance"": Ezechiel and John FIVE The Mirror of Wisdom: The Cult of St. John SIX The Body and Blood of Christ: Mary's Adopted Son SEVEN ""In His Image and Likeness"": John in the Legatus divinae pietatis EIGHT Images and the ""Imago dei"": Vision and the Theology of Deification CONCLUSION ""The Level Path of Likeness"" APPENDIX 1 ""Verbum dei deo natum"" from the Gradual of St. Katharinenthal, fols. 158av 161r APPENDIX 2 A Sermon for the Feast Day of John the Evangelist: Offentliche Bibliothek der Universitat Basel, Ms. A VI 38, fols. 47r 60r Notes Selected Bibliography Index of Biblical Citations General Index"

Reviews

Analyzing an astonishing range of visual examples, Hamburger unlocks a newly discovered door in heaven, revealing the crucial role John plays in medieval thought and art as deified Evangelist as well as apocalyptic prophet and beloved apostle. - Richard K. Emmerson, author of Antichrist in the Middle Ages: A Study of Medieval Apocalypticism, Art, and Literature

""Analyzing an astonishing range of visual examples, Hamburger unlocks a newly discovered door in heaven, revealing the crucial role John plays in medieval thought and art as deified Evangelist as well as apocalyptic prophet and beloved apostle."" - Richard K. Emmerson, author of Antichrist in the Middle Ages: A Study of Medieval Apocalypticism, Art, and Literature

Author Information

Jeffrey F. Hamburger is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. He is author of these award-winning books: The Visual and the Visionary (1998), Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (California, 1997), and The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300 (1990). Among his honors are the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America (1994), the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (1998), the Roland H. Bainton Prize (1998), and the Charles Rufus Morey Award in the History of Art (1998).

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