Table of Contents

Preface 1 Technical Aspects The Hands, Layout, and Format of the Citeaux Moralia Traditional Luxury: The Illuminations of the Prefatory Matter and Books One through Three 3 Simple Symbolism: The Illuminations of Books Four through Seven 4 The Visual Vocabulary of Violence and Daily Life: The Illuminations of Books Eight through Thirty-five and the Frontispiece The Breaking Away from the Conventional Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index Illustrations

Promotional Information

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

In this study Conrad Rudolph examines the meaning of the historiated initials of the famous Citeaux Moralia in Job completed around 1111... By successfully addressing the issues of production, audience, and iconography through this framework of exegetical method, Rudolph's argument provides a major contribution to our understanding of this important example of Romanesque monastic manuscript illumination and a major methodological contribution to the study of medieval monastic art in general. culum--A Journal of Medieval Studies