First, I Find The Center Point: Reading The Text Of Hugh Of Saint Victor's The Mystic Ark (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society)

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by  Conrad Rudolph

Fig. 1. The Mystic Ark as itm ight have appeared if constructed at the
convent of the of Abbess Herrad in the late
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twelfth century. Digital reconstruction, Clement/Han/Rudolph.
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Fig. 4. The Mystic Ark. Earth, air, ether, and the three stages. Clement/
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Fig. 5. The Mystic Ark. Selected components of the Ark and earth.
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Fig. 8. The Mystic Ark. The four ascents. Clement/Rudolph.
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TRANSACTIONS
of the
AMERICANP HILOSOPHICALSO CIETY
Held at
Philadelphia
For Useful
Promoting Knowledge
Volume 94, Part 4
I FIND THE
"FIRST,
CENTER POINT":
READING THE TEXT OF
HUGH OF SAINT VICTOR'S
THE MYSTIC ARK
Conrad
Rudolph
American
Philosophical Society
2004
Philadelphia
Copyright ?2006 by the American Philosophical Society for its Transactions
series. All rights reserved.
ISBN: 0-87169-944-3
US ISSN: 0065-9746
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rudolph, Conrad, 1951
First, I find the center point : reading the text of Hugh of Saint Victor's
The mystic ark / Conrad Rudolph.
p. cm. ? (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ;v . 94,
pt.4)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87169-944-3 (paper)
1. Christian art and symbolism?France?Medieval, 500-1500. 2. Theol
ogy?Early works to 1800. 3. Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096?-1141. Mystic
ark (Painting) 4. Hugh, of Saint-Victor, 1096??1141?Criticism and inter
pretation. 5. Mysticism in art. 6. Lost works of art?France. I. Hugh, of
Saint-Victor, 1096??1141. De arca Noe mystica. II. Title. III. Series.
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