Ayelet Even-Ezra, Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Diagramming Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Transformation of Hrabanus Maurus’s Poems in Praise of the Cross Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Color in Cusanus

Abstract

Following the surge in scholarship by medieval art historians that explores images of the body and credulity around the miraculous 'living' image, it is refreshing to find that a number of recent studies, including the three books under review here, focus on other types of imagery and traditions that were equally important throughout the Middle Ages.1 Already in 2011 Jeffrey F. Hamburger bemoaned the restricted account of medieval art generated by Hans Belting's Bild und Kult: