A Meadow that Lifts the Soul

Originality as Anthologizing in the Byzantine Church Interior

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5306228
AutoresJustin Willson (autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume81
Fascículo1
Páginas1-21
Data de publicação2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jhi.2020.0007
PMID32009008
OpenAlexW3003466356
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas11

Following Hans Blumenberg, this essay studies the genealogy of the idea of originality in a medieval metaphor characterizing the church interior as a "meadow" or λειμῶν (leimôn). Scholars focusing on this metaphor have neglected its use as a description of artistic process. Procopius of Caesarea, John of Damascus, and Leo VI, "the Wise." form the basis of this study, which argues that compiling anthologies (Lat. florilegia, lit. "gatherings of flowers") provided a preliminary description of invention. This metaphor, in turn, laid an initial groundwork for modern writers, including Montesquieu, who sought to theorize originality against the language of manual labor

Aesthetics · Art · Byzantine architecture · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphor · Originality · Sociology · Soul · Value (mathematics) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Anthropology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Computer Science · History · Philosophy