Franciscan Books and their Readers
René Hernández
- Title
- The Cistercian Reform and the Art of the Book in Twelfth-Century France
- Author
- Diane Reilly
- Price
- € 117,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789462985940
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 14 - 08 - 2018
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Series
- Knowledge Communities
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
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- Also available as
- eBook PDF - € 116,99
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God
Early Cîteaux
Voice and Memory at Cîteaux
Meditations on the Song of Songs
The Plan of Action
After Early Cîteaux
Chapter 1. The Joy of Psalmody
The Night Office
Reconstructing Advent at Cîteaux
The Advent Cursus at the New Monastery
Chapter 2. Jerome's Legacy at Twelfth-Century Cîteaux
Cîteaux and Jerome
Stephen as a New Jerome
Jerome in the Liturgy
Picturing Jerome at Cîteaux
Jerome's Letters
Chapter 3. The Virgin and the Abbot
And There Shall Come Forth a Rod Out of Jesse
The Jesse Tree
Christ as Priest
Jesus's Prefigurations
The Virgo Lactans
Bernard of Clairvaux, The Virgin, and the Legacy of Cîteaux's Art and Liturgy
Chapter 4. Fruitful Words in the Stephen Harding Bible
Biting, Chewing, and Swallowing: Eating the Word
Were All Twelfth-Century Animals Hungry for Scripture?
The Meaning of Ornament in the Cîteaux Scriptorium
Lips, Tongues, and Ears: Picturing the Spoken Word
Fruitful Words in the Refectory
Herod's Downfall and the Sin of Gluttony
Heresy, Orthodoxy, and Sung Scripture
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
List of Manuscripts Cited
Reviews and Features
"Reilly's exemplary interdisciplinary work demonstrates how monastic artists and liturgists made tangible links between what they heard, painted, and read, and it shows how these connections shaped the religious experience of early Cistercian monks."
- Martha G. Newman, The University of Texas at Austin, Speculum, 96/1, January 2021
"This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the spiritual project that animated the early life of Cîteaux, founded in 1098."
- Monica Brînzei, sehepunkte.de, May 2019. Read the full review online
"This volume contributes to our understanding of the liturgical and mental world of the early Cistercian monks and to the oral and aural community associated with early Cîteaux... It is a welcome contribution."
- Constance Hoffman Berman, Mediaevistik 32, 2019
"Diane J. Reilly’s study provides a productive interpretation of familiar material, not by applying new methodologies but rather by insisting on the importance of the liturgy as the context for and within which these manuscripts were made."
- Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Medium Ævum, Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 2, 2019
- Martha G. Newman, The University of Texas at Austin, Speculum, 96/1, January 2021
"This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the spiritual project that animated the early life of Cîteaux, founded in 1098."
- Monica Brînzei, sehepunkte.de, May 2019. Read the full review online
"This volume contributes to our understanding of the liturgical and mental world of the early Cistercian monks and to the oral and aural community associated with early Cîteaux... It is a welcome contribution."
- Constance Hoffman Berman, Mediaevistik 32, 2019
"Diane J. Reilly’s study provides a productive interpretation of familiar material, not by applying new methodologies but rather by insisting on the importance of the liturgy as the context for and within which these manuscripts were made."
- Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Medium Ævum, Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 2, 2019
Diane Reilly
The Cistercian Reform and the Art of the Book in Twelfth-Century France
This book is a study of the programmatic oral performance of the written word and its impact on art and text. Communal singing and reading of the Latin texts that formed the core of Christian ritual and belief consumed many hours of the Benedictine monk's day. These texts-read and sung out loud, memorized, and copied into manuscripts-were often illustrated by the very same monks who participated in the choir liturgy. The meaning of these illustrations sometimes only becomes clear when they are read in the context of the texts these monks heard read. The earliest manuscripts of Cîteaux, copied and illuminated at the same time that the new monastery's liturgy was being reformed, demonstrate the transformation of aural experience to visual and textual legacy.
Author
Diane Reilly
Diane Reilly is Associate Professor of Art History at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her first book, The Art of Reform in Eleventh-Century Flanders: Gerard of Cambrai, Richard of Saint-Vanne and the Saint-Vaast Bible (Brill, 2006) explored connections between art, politics and monastic reform.
