Jeffrey Hamburger

Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, Harvard University. Teaching and research focus on the art of the High and later Middle Ages. His his areas of special interest are medieval manuscript illumination, text-image issues, diagrams, the history of attitudes towards imagery and visual experience, female monasticism, and German vernacular religious writing of the Middle Ages, especially in the context of mysticism. Among his many books are Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (1996), The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany (1998), St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology (2002), The Mind's Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages (2006);  Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries (2008);  Unter Druck: mittelalterliche Buchmalerei im Zeitalter Gutenbergs (2015).  Leading figure in his field and an authoritative scholar on illuminated medieval manuscripts and the art of female monasticism.