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 th…
A Companion to Medieval Art brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. * Brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe. * Contains over 30 original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays by renowned and emergent scholars. * Covers the vibrancy of medi…