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Jeffrey Hamburger
Kuno Francke Professor of German Art & Culture
Address:
Dept. of History of Art & Architecture
Sackler Museum
Harvard University
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.8732
Fax: 617.495.1769
Email: jhamburg@fas.harvard.edu
Courses | Biography | Recent Publications | Curriculum Vitae
Courses
Freshman Seminar: The Book of Hours
Undergraduate Courses
The Gothic Cathedral
Carolingians to Capetians: Topics in Medieval Art
Court and Cloister in the Late Middle Ages
The Art of Devotion
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West Choir Screen, Naumburg Cathedral, ca. 1240
Excursion of students & faculty from Harvard University and
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Graduate Seminars
Issues of Interpretation in Medieval Art
Image - Text - Context
Vision, Visions and Visuality in Medieval Art
The Visual Culture of Female Monasticism
Imago: Art & Theology in the Middle Ages
Casts, Construction and Commemoration: German Gothic, in America and Abroad
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Lothar de Segni, De missarum mysteriis, Paris, ca. 1200-1210
Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek, Ms. Memb I 123, f. 2r
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Web-based Resources for the Study of Medieval Art & Architecture
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Professor Hamburger's teaching and research focus on the art of the High and later Middle Ages. Among his areas of special interest are medieval manuscript illumination, text-image issues, the history of attitudes towards imagery and, more broadly, visual experience, and German vernacular religious writing of the Middle Ages, especially in the context of mysticism. Beginning with his dissertation on the Rothschild Canticles (Yale, 1987), much of his scholarship has focused on the art of female monasticism, a program of research that culminated in 2005 in an international exhibition, Krone und Schleier (Crown and Veil) that was sponsored by the German government and held jointly in Bonn and Essen. An English translation of the essays in the exhibition catalogue is forthcoming. His current research includes a project that seeks to integrate digital technology into the study and presentation of liturgical manuscripts and a study of narrative imagery in late medieval German prayer books. The recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the NEH, and the Humboldt-Stiftung, Prof. Hamburger was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2001. He serves on numerous advisory boards, among them, those of the German Manuscript Cataloguing Centers , the Europäisches Romanikzentrum, the Centre International de Codicologie, Bibliothèque Royale Albert I er , Brussels , and Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich.
In addition to numerous articles, Prof. Hamburger's books include: The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Medieval West , co-edited with Anne-Marie Bouché (Princeton: Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, 2005); Die Ottheinrich-Bibel. Kommentar zur Faksimile-Ausgabe der Handschrift Cgm 8010/1.2 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München co-authored with Brigitte Gullath, Karin Schneider, & Robert Suckale (Luzern: Faksimile-Verlag, 2002); St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002); The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (New York: Zone Books, 1998), awarded the Charles Rufus Morey Prize of the College Art Association and the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Art & Music; Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996, awarded the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society and the Otto Gründler Prize of the International Congress of Medieval Studies; and The Rothschild Canticles : Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), awarded the Arlt Award in the Humanities by the Council of Graduate Schools and the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America.
Prof. Hamburger holds both his B.A. and Ph.D. in art history from Yale University . He previously held teaching positions at Oberlin College and the University of Toronto. He has been a guest professor in Zurich, Paris and Oxford.
“Overkill, or History that Hurts,” Common Knowledge 13/2-3 (Symposium: A “Dictatorship of Relativism?”, 404-28.
Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow: Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Painting and Manuscript
Illumination , co-edited with Anne Korteweg (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006).
Picturing Prayer: The Book of Hours in the Middle Ages , ed. Jeffrey Hamburger (Cambridge: Houghton Library, 2006).
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.
For a slide show of the exhibition in Essen (early Middle Ages), link
For a slide show of the exhibition in Bonn (later Middle Ages), linkde Ages), cere [Link to be added]
The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Medieval West , co-edited with Anne-Marie Bouché (Princeton: Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, 2005).
“Bücher der Menscheit”: Johannes Tauler über den ‘Scivias' Hildegards von Bingen , trans. Michael Embach, Mitteilungen und Verzeichnisse aus der Bibliothek des Bischöflichen Priestersemninars zu Trier, ed. by Michael Embach (Trier: Paulinus Verlag, 2005; reprinted 2007).
Krone und Schleier: Musik aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern/Crown and Veil: Music from Medieval Women's Monasteries, Sequentia, Benjamin Bagby (Bon: Kunst: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, 2005).
Sol oritur occasus nescius, Herrad of Hohenburg, Hortus deliciarum , Strasbourg, BNU (destroyed 1870), transcription and reconstruction, Benjamin Bagby, based on Engelhardt's fascimile (1818). A rare example of notated polyphony in a 12th-century German source. © KAH, Bonn. mp3
Stimmen aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern. Ein Hörbuch mit geistlichen Texten auf Altsächsisch, Mittelhochdeutsch und Mittelniederdeutsch (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2005), ed. with Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, Susan Marti, Hedwig Röckelein.
Krone und Schleier: Musik aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern/Crown and Veil: Music from Medieval Women's Monasteries , Sequentia, Benjamin Bagby (Bonn: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, 2005). mp3
The Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 801): Facsimile and Commentary (together with Nigel Palmer, Oxford) Nigel Palmer's website
Fall of the Rebel Angels, Prayer Book of Ursula Begerin, Strasbourg, late XIV, early XV and late XV century, Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Codex 801, ff. 8v-9r.
Leaves from Paradise: The Cult of John at the Dominican Convent of Paradies bei Soest , Houghton Library Studies, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Houghton Library, distributed by Harvard University Press).
The Flight of the Eagle (John the Evangelist) to God Paradies bei Soest, ca. 1380-1400
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Ms. Typ. 1095
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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, forthcoming).
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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 W. Bynum (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming).
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