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Conrad of Hirsau’s Trees of Vices and Virtues : From De fructu carnis et spiritus to the Speculum virginum /

Goggin, Cheryl,

Conrad of Hirsau’s Trees of Vices and Virtues : From De fructu carnis et spiritus to the Speculum virginum / From De fructu carnis et spiritus to the Speculum virginum Cheryl Goggin. - 1 online resource (560 pages) : illustrations. - Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; 27 Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025 . - Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; 27. Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conrad of Hirsau (c.1070 – c.1150) created the famous Trees of Vices and Virtues in De fructu carnis et spiritus , which he prepared before 1133 for illiterate laymen. This investigation provides an edition and translation of that work and defines its influential images. It also discovers the convoluted process through which Conrad developed that work into the Speculum virginum c.1140 – 1150 for religious women. This study reveals that Conrad composed that work for his two young women relatives who had entered the Andernach convent, that the autograph manuscript is British Library Arundel 44, and that Conrad himself rendered its numerous innovative pictures.


English

9789004746879

10.1163/9789004746879 DOI


Art History.
Book History and Cartography.
History.

N5305

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