The Things of Greater Importance: Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia and the Medieval Attitude Toward Art

by Conrad Rudolph and Bernard of Clairvaux

The "Things of Greater Importance" provides a close look into the social and cultural context of medieval art, primarily as expressed in Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia, the central document in the greatest artistic controversy to occur in the West prior to the Reformation and the most important source we have for understanding medieval attitudes toward art. Bernard wrote the Apologia during the medieval efflorescence of monumental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812281810
• ISBN13: 9780812281811
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary