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

by Conrad Rudolph (Author)

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 sculpture and stained glass, of advanced architecture, of pilgrimage art, of high Romanesque, and of the origins of Gothic art.

Author Biography

Conrad Rudolph is Professor Medieval Art History at the University of California, Riverside, and is the author of several other books, including Pilgrimage to the End of the World: The Road to Santiago de Compostela.