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Violence and Daily Life: Reading, Art, and Polemics in the Cîteaux Moralia in Job - Tapa dura

Rudolph, Conrad

 
9780691026732: Violence and Daily Life: Reading, Art, and Polemics in the Cîteaux Moralia in Job
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ISBN 10: 0691026734 ISBN 13: 9780691026732
Editorial: Princeton University Press, 1997

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

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.

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"The Citeaux Moralia in Job is an important manuscript that has always received short shrift because viewers have ignored the text in studying the images. As a result, prior discussions have featured individual images, but not looked at patterns revealed in the whole book. Here Conrad Rudolph offers a wonderful reading of the images. He is singularly qualified to undertake the project because of his immersion in the writings of the Cistercians and his awareness of the specific historical and intellectual moment within which the manuscript was created. This book will interest readers from a variety of fields, including art history, history, and religious studies."--Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Editorial
Princeton University Press
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0691026734
ISBN 13 
9780691026732
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
196
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