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Beauty and the Pilgrim soul: A study of Le Pelerinage de la vie humaine as an allegory of Cistercian aesthetics.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Beauty and the Pilgrim soul: A study of Le Pelerinage de la vie humaine as an allegory of Cistercian aesthetics./
Author:	Alexander, Kinsley Hyland.
Description:	389 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Matilda Bruckner.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-03A.
Subject:	Fine Arts. -
Online resource:	http://0-pqdd.sinica.edu.tw.lib1.npue.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3256231

Beauty and the Pilgrim soul: A study of Le Pelerinage de la vie humaine as an allegory of Cistercian aesthetics.
Alexander, Kinsley Hyland.

Beauty and the Pilgrim soul: A study of Le Pelerinage de la vie humaine as an allegory of Cistercian aesthetics. - 389 p.

Adviser: Matilda Bruckner.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston College, 2007.

This study is concerned with the problem of beauty in Guillaume de Deguileville's Le Pelerinage de la vie humaine. More specifically, it is concerned with a fourteenth-century Cistercian monk's perspective on the problem of beauty and its all-important role in the salvation of the soul. Since Deguileville was an accomplished artist as well as a highly-educated monk, he presents his Cistercian aesthetics in the form of a complex allegory in verse, with a cast of personifications acting out the basic theological doctrines which support his ideas on beauty. His central personification, the Pilgrim soul, represents all the "Everyman" souls who would comprise a typical medieval audience, the primary targets of Deguileville's narrative. He wants to awaken every individual to the dangers of pursuing beauty and the urgency of learning to discern between its true and its false manifestations. Learning to know true beauty is equivalent in the Cistercian mind to learning to know God, and it requires an arduous, lifelong pilgrimage away from our carnal longings and towards our spiritual selves. Deguileville's Pelerinage is the history of one such journey, beginning with the Pilgrim's spiritual awakening through a vision of truth and beauty, then following his exhausted struggle with his bestial nature, and finally ending with his rescue, restoration, and death in the monastery. By closely evaluating the artistic strategies Deguileville uses in his narrative poem, most particularly his employment and deployment of imagery, we can discover a great deal about the medieval Cistercian order's distinctive brand of Christian doctrine and aesthetics.Subjects--Topical Terms:

891065
Fine Arts.

Beauty and the Pilgrim soul: A study of Le Pelerinage de la vie humaine as an allegory of Cistercian aesthetics.
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