medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Here is the promised "psycho-babble," tangential to the issue of church as heavenly Jerusalem. However, the "babblers" are Meyer Schapiro and Georges Duby - quality babblers. Their statements are stitched together by me:
In _Romanesque Art_, Meyer Schapiro reminds us that Bernard had a "double life as monk and statesman," and Schapiro carries this twofold aspect of Bernard's public persona into [Bernard's] psychological make-up (9). Considering both the frequency with which Bernard frets about monastic art and the words he uses to describe it, Schapiro alleges that "Bernard was intensely fascinated by these useless spiritually dangerous works" (8). "When he attacks the art of the cloisters, he is reacting against the concupiscence of his own eyes and the irrationality of his own impulses" appealing "constantly to metaphors of sensory delight for religious expression . . ." (9). Furthermore, the type of capitals that Bernard abhors - and fears -"are a world of projected emotions [and] psychologically significant images. . ." (10). Duby also comments on Bernard's "concupiscence of his own eyes" and points out the saint's double standard in the domains of visual and textual art: "Il peut sembler étrange que Bernard de Clairvaux, qui aimait parer son langage de tous les chatoiements de la rhétorique, n'ait pas senti la nécessité d'orner aussi la maison de Dieu" (_Saint Bernard l'art cistercien_. Paris: Flammarion, 1979, p. 93).
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