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Conrad Rudolph.
Violence and Daily Life: Reading, Art and Polemics in the Cîteaux Moralia in Job.
Publisher: Princeton U.P., 1997.
ISBN 0691026734.
ISBN-13: 9780691026732.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Princeton Academic Press, Lawrenceville, NJ.
Size: 160×241×20mm.
Page count: text xii,145pp; plates 48pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy has some scuffs and scratches, noticeable but not severe, remains of a medium-sized sticker on its front panel, and white residue from a small sticker on the back, a little wear on the edges and corners; the boards are a bit blotchy, otherwise the book itself looks in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £15.00
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[Publisher’s price $65.00/£43.95]
Weight without packaging: 554g.

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Examines the ways spirituality and politics in which interact through the illuminations in a 12th-century manuscript of Gregory the Great’s doctrinal treatise.

Contents: Technical aspects — hands, layout & format — uniqueness; Traditional luxury — illuminations of prefatory matter & books 1‑3; Simple symbolism — illuminations of books 4‑7; Visual vocabulary of violence & daily life — illuminations of books 8‑35 & frontispiece; Conclusion — exegetical spiritualization of 1st generation Cistercian experience.

Illustrations: 48 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: yes

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