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asteries of the Holy Mountain, one is entitled to wonder Ta simfonija čutov je ustvarila potopisna besedi-
whether their varied approaches to their intellectual and la v obliki zgodb, opisov in epistolarnih izmenjav, ki so
social environments which produced them were not a materializirala del posebne skupne domišljije za srednje-
romantic vision to varying degrees of Byzantine civiliza- veško obdobje. To je bilo izraženo v jeziku, ki je ideologi-
tion based on their ability to transcribe the visual sens- jo, zaznamovano z avtorjevim kulturnim ozadjem, pre-
es into words and expressions: the art of monasteries: našal od strasti in samožrtvovanja do kritike.
architecture, frescoes, icons, the auditory sense: Byzan- Francosko govoreča literatura o gori Atos se je
tine chants, prayers, without forgetting a certain beauty razvijala od 16. stoletja dalje. Začela se je s Pierrom Be-
of the landscape said to be preserved, even considered lonom du Mansom (1555), botanikom, in se nadaljeva-
sacred over the centuries. This symphony of the senses, la z navdušenci nad Bizancem, kot je Eugène Mercier
therefore, generated viatical texts in the form of stories, (1933), ter s pravoslavnim teologom Jean-Claudom Lar-
descriptions, and epistolary exchanges where the part of chetom (2022), ki je v svojih delih poudaril duhovno is-
102 a particular shared imagination for the medieval peri- kanje. Pomembni prispevki vključujejo tudi iniciacijske
od materialized through the words and expressions of a poglede ljubitelja grškega jezika in civilizacije Jacquesa
language conveying an ideology, according to their cul- Lacarrièra (1954, 1975, 2002), sarkazem novinarke in bo-
studia universitatis hereditati, letnik 12 (2024), številka 2 / volume 12 (2024), number 2
tural background, ranging from passion to self-sacrifice doče psihoanalitičarke Maryse Choisy (1929) ter kritiko
to criticism. As for French-speaking literature, since the oblata Katoliške cerkve in nekdanjega ravnatelja srednje
16th century, from Pierre Belon du Mans (1555), botanist, šole Clauda Chevreuila (2008).
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