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St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology


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Throughout the Middle Ages, John the Evangelist, identified as the author of both the Book of Revelation and the most profound and theologically informed of the four Gospels, provided monks and nuns with a figure of inspiration and an exemplar of vision and virginity. Rather than the historical apostle, this book's protagonist is a persona of the Evangelist established in theology, the liturgy, and devotional practice: the model mystic, who, by virtue of his penetrating insight, was seen as having become a mirror image of Christ. In this text, Jeffrey Hamburger identifies a remarkable set of images from the 9th to the 15th centuries that identify the Evangelist so closely with the deity that he appears as his living image and embodiment. Hamburger explores the ways these representations of St John in the guise of Christ elucidate the significance of images as such in medieval theology and mysticism. Above all, he shows how these artworks epitomize the relationship between the visible and the invisible: between ideas, however abstract, and the concrete images that medieval Christians confronted face-to-face.

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

About the Author :
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).

Review :
"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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520228771
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 347
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Weight: 1678 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0520228774
  • Publisher Date: 26 Sep 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology
  • Width: 216 mm


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