Violence and Daily Life: Reading, Art, and Polemics in the Citeaux Moralia in Job - Couverture rigide

Rudolph, Conrad

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691026734 ISBN 13 : 9780691026732

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The 12th-century manuscript of Gregory the Great's "Moralia in Job" contains images of seemingly gratuitous violence and daily life. This book argues that beyond the face value of these illuminations lies an undercurrent of thematic consistency. Like obscure events from Scripture, the author maintains, the iamges may lead to another level of meaning yet to be discovered. Rudolph focuses on the ways spirituality and politics operate in the artistic process that produced this particular manuscript. By exploring these interactions, we can understand how the form of spirituality embodied in this manuscript legitimzed a very intimate attitude on the part of the artist toward the subject. The images are in fact, he argues, the product of Gregory's demand that one "become" what one reads: some reflect the ideal monk crafting a holy place out of the wilderness, others the Cistercian notion of spiritual advancement as a violent struggle.

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À propos de l'auteur

Conrad Rudolph is Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of California, Riverside. He has held Guggenheim, J. Paul Getty, and Mellon fellowships, and is the author of Artistic Change at St-Denis: Abbot Suger's Program and the Early Twelfth-Century Controversy over Art (Princeton) and The Things of Greater Importance: Bernard of Clairvaux's "Apologia" and the Medieval Attitude toward Art.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691026734
• ISBN 13: 9780691026732
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 196
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