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| Such is the case with "[[libri idiotarum]]," 47 hits in Google [https://www.google.com/search?num=50&espv=210&es_sm=122&q=%22Libri+idiotarum%22+&oq=%22Libri+idiotarum%22+&gs_l=serp.3..0i22i30.3456.9820.0.10015.4.4.0.0.0.0.110.379.3j1.4.0....0...1c.1.37.serp..3.1.110.D4ZHYwhI7ss] and 215 in Google Books[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Libri+idiotarum%22&num=50&espv=210&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=bks&sa=X&ei=i40hU9eSG4nMygO59IKYBw&ved=0CA4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=667] (see also the Google NGram view[https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=libri+idiotarum&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Clibri%20idiotarum%3B%2Cc0].) | Such is the case with "[[libri idiotarum]]," 47 hits in Google [https://www.google.com/search?num=50&espv=210&es_sm=122&q=%22Libri+idiotarum%22+&oq=%22Libri+idiotarum%22+&gs_l=serp.3..0i22i30.3456.9820.0.10015.4.4.0.0.0.0.110.379.3j1.4.0....0...1c.1.37.serp..3.1.110.D4ZHYwhI7ss] and 215 in Google Books[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Libri+idiotarum%22&num=50&espv=210&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=bks&sa=X&ei=i40hU9eSG4nMygO59IKYBw&ved=0CA4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=667] (see also the Google NGram view[https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=libri+idiotarum&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Clibri%20idiotarum%3B%2Cc0].) | ||
| - | "'''Libri idiotarum'''" means "books of the ignorant" or "books for the illiterate" (idiot did not mean what it means today). The expression was first recorded in a letter by [[Pope Gregory I]] and refers to [[picture]]s (paintings, illustrations, sculpture and other visual representations) : | + | "'''Libri idiotarum'''" means "books of the ignorant" or "books for the illiterate" (idiot did not mean what it means today). The expression was first recorded in a letter by [[Pope Gregory I]] and refers to [[picture]]s: |
| :"For pictorial representation is made use of in Churches for this reason; that such as are ignorant of letters may at least read by looking at the walls what they cannot read in books."[http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/360209105.htm] | :"For pictorial representation is made use of in Churches for this reason; that such as are ignorant of letters may at least read by looking at the walls what they cannot read in books."[http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/360209105.htm] | ||
| - | This is the main purpose of [[Christian art]] in an era when only the clergy and the nobility were able to read. For the [[illiterate]], [[a picture is worth a thousand words]]. For them the [[biblia pauperum]] was made. | + | Gregory refers to paintings, illustrations, sculpture and other visual representations used in [[Christian art]] to spread the message of Christianity in an era when only the clergy and the nobility were able to read. |
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| + | For these unfortunate souls, the [[biblia pauperum]] was also made. | ||
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| + | For the [[illiterate]], [[a picture is worth a thousand words]]. | ||
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It's nice to find a Google query with more hits in Google Books than in Google.
Such is the case with "libri idiotarum," 47 hits in Google [1] and 215 in Google Books[2] (see also the Google NGram view[3].)
"Libri idiotarum" means "books of the ignorant" or "books for the illiterate" (idiot did not mean what it means today). The expression was first recorded in a letter by Pope Gregory I and refers to pictures:
- "For pictorial representation is made use of in Churches for this reason; that such as are ignorant of letters may at least read by looking at the walls what they cannot read in books."[4]
Gregory refers to paintings, illustrations, sculpture and other visual representations used in Christian art to spread the message of Christianity in an era when only the clergy and the nobility were able to read.
For these unfortunate souls, the biblia pauperum was also made.
For the illiterate, a picture is worth a thousand words.
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