The Diagram as Paradigm

The Diagram as Paradigm is the first book that looks at medieval diagrams in a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on three regions—Byzantium, the Islamicate world, and the Latin West—each culturally diverse and each closely linked to the others through complex processes of intellectual, artistic, diplomatic, and mercantile exchange.

The volume unites case studies, often of li...

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The Diagram as Paradigm is the first book that looks at medieval diagrams in a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on three regions—Byzantium, the Islamicate world, and the Latin West—each culturally diverse and each closely linked to the others through complex processes of intellectual, artistic, diplomatic, and mercantile exchange.

The volume unites case studies, often of little-known material, by an international set of specialists, and is prefaced by four introductory essays that provide broad overviews of diagrammatic traditions in these regions in addition to considering the theoretical dimensions of diagramming. Among the historical disciplines whose use of diagrams is explored are philosophy, theology, mysticism, music, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and cosmology. Despite the sheer variety, ingenuity, and visual inventiveness of diagrams from the premodern world, in conception and practical use they often share many similarities, both in construction and application. Diagrams prove to be an essential part of the fabric of premodern intellectual, scientific, religious, artistic, and artisanal life.

Jeffrey F. Hamburger is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

David J. Roxburgh is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

Linda Safran is Associate Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval S...

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Jeffrey F. Hamburger is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

David J. Roxburgh is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

Linda Safran is Associate Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto.

General Introduction: Medieval Diagrams [Jeffrey F. Hamburger]
1. Byzantine Diagrams [Linda Safran]
2. Islamicate Diagrams [David Roxburgh]
3. Western Medieval Diagrams [Jeffrey F. Hamburger]
4. Between Diagram and Image: On Yuval’s Harp [Benjamin Anderson]
5. Byzantine-Islamic Scientific Culture in the Astronomical Diagrams of Chioniades on John of Damascus [Alexandre M. Roberts]
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General Introduction: Medieval Diagrams [Jeffrey F. Hamburger]
1. Byzantine Diagrams [Linda Safran]
2. Islamicate Diagrams [David Roxburgh]
3. Western Medieval Diagrams [Jeffrey F. Hamburger]
4. Between Diagram and Image: On Yuval’s Harp [Benjamin Anderson]
5. Byzantine-Islamic Scientific Culture in the Astronomical Diagrams of Chioniades on John of Damascus [Alexandre M. Roberts]
6. Space, Place, Diagram: Cleomedes and the Visual Program of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod.gr. 482 [Divna Manolova]
7. Al-Ṣūfī’s Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābita (Book of Forms of the Fixed Stars): Between Illustrated Book, Scientific Instrument, and Firmament [David Roxburgh]
8. A World of Embedded Spheres: Circular Planetary Diagrams in Late Byzantine Manuscripts [Anne-Laurence Caudano]
9. Islamic Cosmological Diagrams [Sonja Brentjes]
10. Corporeal and Spiritual Celestial Spheres and Their Visual Figurations: From Adelard of Bath and Honorius to John of Sacrobosco and Michael Scot [Barbara Obrist]
11. Diagrams in Greek Medical Manuscripts [Petros Bouras-Vallianatos]
12. Proven Recipes: Geometry and the Art of Arabic Medicine [Meekyung Ruth MacMurdie]
13. Utility beyond Function: Practical and Social Uses of Diagrams in Late Medieval English Medical Manuscripts [Sara Öberg Strådal]
14. Grid Space in Boethius’s De institutione arithmetica [Megan C. McNamee]
15. Drawing Conclusions: Logic Diagrams as a Matrix for the Making and Meaning of Christian Images in the Middle Ages [Jeffrey F. Hamburger]
16. Zweifalten’s Diagrammatic Scriptorium [Adam S. Cohen]
17. Diagramming Byzantine Orthodoxy [Linda Safran]
18. The Prophet Muḥammad’s ʿAyn Seal: A Safavid-Period Diagram as Cosmic Catharsis [Christiane Gruber]
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