Aither is a double-blind peer review, Open Access online academic journal. It is indexed at ERIH+ and Scopus. It is published by the Faculty of Arts of the Palacký University in Olomouc in cooperation with the Philosophical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It comes out twice a year. Every second issue is international and contains foreign-language articles (mainly in English, but also in German and French). The journal is registered under the number ISSN 1803-7860.
Aither 15/2016:94-109 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2016.006
The presented study deals with one of the best-known medieval disputes on beauty and art. It tries to valorize possible mutual influences and relations between the main actors of this argument: Bernard of Clairvaux and Suger of Saint-Denis. The work derives from Erwin Panofsky's thesis, which states that Suger was, in his work, driven by the effort to defend his actions from Bernard of Clairvaux's complaints. The text tries, on a very limited space, to both present the contemporary discussion and to valorize the preserved sources, which are relevant in context of this issue (it deals both with the authors' texts and their correspondence). Last but not least, the study suggests some of the possible new ways of interpreting of the authors' key works: that is especially Apologia ad Guillelmum Abbatem from Bernard of Clairvaux and De adminastratione from Suger of Saint-Denis.
Published: March 30, 2016 Show citation
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