Mittelalterliche Literatur und Kunst im Spannungsfeld von Hof und Kloster: Ergebnisse der Berliner Tagung, 9-11 Oktober 1997.(Review) The Modern Language Review (10/1/2001)
...Gottfried's love-grotto. He approaches his topic with a wide sweep, taking in Bishop Gunther of Bamberg and Abbot Suger of St Denis, discusses the episcopal court at Strasbourg as the possible audience for Tristan, and describes the grotto both...
'To stun the soul': J. M. W. Turner at the met.(Art) Commonweal (8/15/2008)
...Greek philosophers through Augustine and Pseu-do-Dionysius, light has been associated with the divine. When Suger of St. Denis flooded the choir of his abbey church in 1144 with the light of stained glass, he inaugurated what was then known...
No stone unturned: this sumptuous survey of pietre dure immediately establishes itself as a standard work.(Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palace of Europe)(Book review) Apollo (2/1/2009)
...particularly within the Roman Empire. Mounted hardstones crammed the treasuries of early collectors, such as Abbot Suger of St Denis in the 12th century, the Emperor Charles iv in the 14th and Jean, duc de Berry in the 15th. Given the ancient...
Fighting knights and sirens: the cloister, Monreale. (Monreale, Sicily) History Today (2/1/1996)
...wise and the foolish'. St Bernard admits that art...this to follow Christ'. St Bernard had thrown down...was answered by Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis (1081-1151). The idea...famous Apologia. Would St Bernard still have found...
The myths of medieval warfare. History Today (1/1/1994)
...interest in war as their fathers, brothers and patrons were members of the fighting class, the bellatores: Suger, Abbot of St Denis, gives a vigorous account of King Louis VI at war in his Life of Louis the Fat; Bishop Hugues of Auxerre would...
Plundering in high office a big worry.(News) Cape Argus (South Africa) (7/28/2010)
...officials in some national departments, where the Presidency is among the most affected. Monsignor Suger, also known as the Abbot of St Denis, was one of the most successful public officials, serving both Louis VI and Louis VII, during troubling...
On a quiet hilltop, a glimpse into Age of Faith The Boston Globe (10/7/2007)
...including the Benedictine abbey of St.-Michel-de-Cuxa (circa 1130...another medieval churchman, Abbot Suger, a contemporary of Bernard of Clairvaux. Suger, who built the radiant Basilica of St. Denis north of Paris, knew something...
City of Angels: Rafael Moneo's new cathedral for Los Angeles affirms and reinterprets the Catholic balancing act between the physical and the divine. The Architectural Review (3/1/2003)
...glass light narrating saints' lives that Abbe Suger sought for his new abbey at Saint Denis in 1140. Colour in the cathedral will come from...congregation. The city's former cathedral, St Vibiana's, was not only severely damaged in...
Kaleidoscopes of meditation Evanston Review (IL) (12/4/2003)
...altar backdrop. Those seeing the stained glass in Evanston today may experience what Abbot Suger of Paris felt 700 years ago when he wrote about St. Denis Cathedral: "Out of my delight in the beauty of the house of God -- the loveliness of the...
CHARTRES THE CATHEDRAL OF LIGHT A WRITER SPENDS THREE WEEKS UNDER THE SPELL OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT GOTHIC MASTERPIECES The Boston Globe (4/15/2001)
...the time was dedicated to St. Stephen; only later did...Gothic style. Begun at nearby St. Denis in Paris, Gothic was the gift of its protean abbot, Suger, prelate, king's minister...cathedral was to re-create St. John's vision of a ...
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