The hierarchy of the world in representations of medieval man devoted to many pages of the book. P. Bitsilli naturally binds together these two principles -- symbolism and hierarchy. He writes: "all "things visible" have the ability to reproduce the "things invisible", to be their characters. But not all in equal measure. Every thing -- the mirror; but the mirrors are there more, there is less smooth. This alone makes you think the world as a hierarchy of symbols. Next: symbols -- the highest we've seen -- involved by their nature symbols of the lower, presenttheir a because play, so to speak, a double role of playing "invisible things", they at the same time reproduce and visible, standing below them. Every the thing is, "small world", which looks "big world", but not all reflects it completely.
The hierarchy of the world in representations of medieval man devoted to
ReplyDeletemany pages of the book. P. Bitsilli naturally binds
together these two principles -- symbolism and hierarchy. He writes:
"all "things visible" have the ability to reproduce the "things invisible", to be
their characters. But not all in equal measure. Every thing -- the mirror; but
the mirrors are there more, there is less smooth. This alone makes you think the world
as a hierarchy of symbols. Next: symbols -- the highest we've seen
-- involved by their nature symbols of the lower, presenttheir
a because play, so to speak, a double role of playing "invisible
things", they at the same time reproduce and visible, standing below them. Every
the thing is, "small world", which looks "big world", but not all
reflects it completely.