A Meadow that Lifts the Soul: Originality as Anthologizing in the Byzantine Church Interior.
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DOI: 10.1353/jhi.2020.0007
Abstract: 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… read more here.
Keywords: meadow lifts; lifts soul; interior meadow; church interior ... See more keywords