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Lediglich der Schutzumschlag ist leicht berieben und minimal angerissen. Sonst ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the dust jacket is slightly rubbed and minimally torn. Otherwise a very good and clean copy/ Only the dust jacket is slightly rubbed and minimally torn. Otherwise a very good and clean copy. - This is a study of the medieval attitude toward art primarily as expressed through Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia and the early twelfth-century controversy over art, but also as expressed in the relation of the Apologia and that controversy to the historical constant of a non-iconoclastic resis-tance to art in the West. Indeed, the study of art in its controversial aspect often teils us more about its meaning than it does in its non-controversial aspect. For it is in periods of stress that strengths and weaknesses emerge, that issues arise. And so this is a study of some of the issues of medieval art, of some of its justifications and the challenges to those justifications, as they were seen by contemporaries. THE "THINGS OF GREATER IMPORTANCE" Art to Attract Donations: The Monastic Investment The Process of the Monastic Investment in Art: Gauzlin of Fleury and Suger of Saint-Denis Art for the Honor of God and the Obligation to Spend The Response: Piety and Poverty Art to Attract Donations: The Liturgical Artwork Bernard's Categories of Excess The Liturgical Artwork and the Sensory Saturation of the Holy Place Art to Attract Donations: The Equation Between Excessive Art and Holiness Art as Opposed to the Care of the Poor The Sale of Liturgical Art for the Relief of the Poor Resistance to Art as a Burden to the Poor Expenditure on Art as Similar to Almsgiving Art as a Spiritual Distraction to the Monk Art as a Spiritual Distraction Art as a Spiritual Aid Bernard's Concept of Artistic Distraction 3 THE APOLOGIA AND THE ART OF THE ORDERS OF CLUNY AND CITEAUX The Capitals of the Cloister of Moissac Instances of Bemard's Fourteen Examples Instances of Bemard's Three Iconographical Categories The Second Bible of Saint-Martial, and the Bible of Stephen Harding and the Moralia in Job of Citeaux Instances of Bernard's Fourteen Examples Instances of Bemard',s Three Iconographical Categories Frequency, Effect, and the Distractive Quality of Art quantity: finial heads and f�ll bodies variety: symmetrical pairs and hybridity narrative: incoherent violence and spiritual struggle other artistic factors 4 TO WHOM THE APOLOGIA WAS ADDRESSED Cluny, the Cluniacs, and the Non-Cluniac Traditional Benedictines The New Ascetic Orders and the Cistercians The New Ascetic Orders The Cistercians. ISBN 9780812281811