The humility topos

[John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>]

In literary criticism a "topos" is a standard method of constructing an
argument, or more generally, a commonplace:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_topos

So, from what you wrote, I guessed that the medieval "humility topos" was
the commonplace that religious figures were humble.

But why guess?  These days one can use Google!  There are lots of
discussions of the humility topos:

http://www.google.com/search?q=humility+topos

and I see that my guess was not quite right:

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_h.html

Best,
jb


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