Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

9/1/2015 - 8/31/2016

Funding Totals

$50,400.00 (approved)
$50,400.00 (awarded)


Berthold of Nuremberg's 13th-Century Reconfiguration of Hrabanus Maurus's 9th-Century Treatise on the Cross

FAIN: FA-58135-15

Jeffrey Hamburger
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)

My project, a study of Berthold of Nuremberg's unpublished 13th-century reworking of the treatise on the Cross written by the influential Carolingian monk and polymath, Hrabanus Maurus (ca. 780-956), will examine the role of diagrammatic imagery in the Middle Ages as well as transformations in attitudes towards images over the course of the Middle Ages. Entitled From Cross to Crucifix, the resulting book will focus on the historical, art-historical, literary and art-historical implications of the shift from the cross as sacred sign to the historical narrative of the crucifixion.





Associated Products

Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross (Book)
Title: Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross
Author: Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo41210394.html
Primary URL Description: Publisher website
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780226642819