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| # A [[literary]] [[theme]] or [[motif]]; a [[rhetorical]] convention or formula. | # A [[literary]] [[theme]] or [[motif]]; a [[rhetorical]] convention or formula. | ||
| - | #* '''2003''', [[w:Roy Porter]], ''Flesh in the Age of Reason'' (Penguin 2004, p. 239) | + | #* '''2003''', [[Roy Porter]], ''Flesh in the Age of Reason'' (Penguin 2004, p. 239) |
| #*: The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic '''topos''' familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement. | #*: The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic '''topos''' familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement. | ||
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- A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula.
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 239)
- The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 239)
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