The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages

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Explores the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature - issues central to the study of medieval art. This book examines the illustration of theological commentaries, the use of images to expound or disseminate doctrine, the role of images within theological discourse, the development of doctrine in response to images, and more.

Jeffrey F. Hamburger is Professor in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University. His books include "St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology" and "The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany". Anne-Marie Bouche is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University.

"The Mind's Eye represents the most significant collection of essays on medieval art that has been assembled in recent memory, and its implications for the understanding of medieval art and society will be felt for a long time to come. Rarely does a group of conference proceedings demonstrate such a uniformly high quality of intellectual accomplishment, and credit is due not only to the contributors themselves, but also to the editors for bringing together such an important group of scholars in the first place. Indeed, the volume demonstrates, among other things, the inadequacy of modern disciplinary boundaries in addressing medieval history in general and medieval art in particular; this is a model of what interdisciplinarity should be."-Adam Cohen, University of Toronto