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• Title:The Mystic Ark : Hugh of Saint Victor, art, and thought in the twelfth century / Conrad Rudolph.
  
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• Author/Creator:Rudolph, Conrad, 1951- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  

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  • Call Number: ND553.H82 R83 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141--Criticism and interpretation.
  Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141. De arca Noe mystica.
  Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141. Mystic ark (Painting)
  Art and society--Europe--History--To 1500.
  
• Description:xix, 609 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
  
• Summary:"Conrad Rudolph studies and reconstructs Hugh of St Victor's forty-two-page written work, The Mystic Ark, which describes the medieval painting of the same name"-- Provided by publisher.
  "In this book, Conrad Rudolph studies and reconstructs Hugh of St. Victor's forty-two-page written work, The Mystic Ark, which describes the medieval painting of the same name. In medieval written sources, works of art are not often referred to, let alone described in any detail. Almost completely ignored by art historians because of the immense difficulty of its text, Hugh of Saint Victor's Mystic Ark (c. 1125-1130) is among the most unusual sources we have for an understanding of medieval artistic culture. Depicting all time, all space, all matter, all human history, and all spiritual striving, this highly polemical painting deals with a series of cultural issues crucial in the education of society's elite during one of the great periods of intellectual change in Western history"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781107037052 (hardback)
  1107037050 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Mystic Ark Lectures
  Introduction
  Order and Method
  Intellectual and Political Environment of The Mystic Ark: The "Old" and "New" Theologies, the Ecclesiastical Reform Movement in Northern France, and The Mystic Ark
  Hugh as Master of the School of Saint Victor and the Ark Lectures
  Format of the Ark Lectures as a Response to the "New Theology"
  Mystic Ark as a Work of Art
  General Sources of The Mystic Ark
  Concluding Remarks
  2. Image Of The Mystic Ark
  Introduction
  Hugh's Introduction to the Mystic Ark Lectures
  I. Ark of Noah: The Ark According to the Letter and the Politics of Exegetical Method
  Introduction
  I.1. "Form and Size"
  I.2. Hugh and the Iconographic Tradition of the Ark of the Flood
  I.3. Conclusion: A Literal Ark?
  II. Ark of the Church: The Ark According to Simple Allegory and the History of Salvation
  Introduction
  II.1. Majesty
  II.2. Works of Creation: The Six Days
  II.3. Works of Restoration: The Ark
  II.4. Cosmos and the Majesty
  III. Ark of Wisdom: The Ark According to Anagogical Allegory and Building the House of God
  Introduction
  III.1. Moral Ark, Book One: Hugh's Introduction to The Moral Ark and the Context of the Ark of Wisdom
  III.2. Moral Ark, Book Two: Reading the Ark of Wisdom According to Anagogical Allegory
  III.3. Moral Ark, Book Three: Breaking Away from the Ark
  III.4. Moral Ark, Book Four: The Ark of Wisdom and Order in Building the House of God
  III.5. Closing Statement of The Moral Ark
  IV. Ark of Mother Grace: The Ark According to Tropology and Adorning the House of God
  Introduction
  IV.1. Body of Christ and the Appropriation of the Neoplatonically Based Macro/microcosm
  IV.2. Vertical Ark: The Three Stages and the Four Ascents
  3. Conclusion: The Mystic Ark And The Multiplication And Systematization Of Imagery
  Four Arks
  "Only One Ark Everywhere": The Need for a Work of Art
  Mystic Ark and a Systematized Middle-Ground Worldview
  Afterlife of the Mystic Ark Lectures: The Reportatio
  Afterlife of the Mystic Ark Lectures: The Inventions of the Gothic Portal and the Exegetical Stained-Glass Window at Saint-Denis
  Concluding Remarks: "And the Painting, What Else Does It Tell You?"
  APPENDIX: TRANSLATION OF THE MYSTIC ARK, WITH ART HISTORICAL COMMENTARY
  I. Technical Aspects of The Mystic Ark
  Text and Translation of The Mystic Ark
  Construction of the Image of The Mystic Ark
  II. Translation of The Mystic Ark, with Art Historical Commentary
  II.1. Art Historical Commentary: Introduction
  II.2. Structure of The Mystic Ark
  II.3. Translation of The Mystic Ark, with Art Historical Commentary.