The Birth of the Author: Pictorial Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth Century by Jeffrey F. Hamburger (review)

Abstract

is us a feast of insights and great scholarship in this book: in the current climate of scholarship where the study of asceticism has been driven by ideological approaches ... , this offers a most welcome counterexample: it is refreshing to see someone actually reading the texts and trying to discern what these are trying to say without imposing her own agenda or framework.”