Honorius of Autun and his work «De imagine mundi»: the influence of the Platonic tradition

This article examines selected excerpts from Honorius Augustodunensis’s “On the Image of the World” in the context of the Platonic tradition. For Honorius, a 12th-century intellectual and encyclopedist, the text is not only a manual informing the reader about cosmology but also a spiritually edifying work designed to stimulate spiritual rebirth. Following the author, the reader moves from the sensory perception of space to an intellectual comprehension of time and, finally, to a spiritual vision of eternity. In his work, Honorius reworks Neoplatonic ideas; using metaphors, he transforms the account of cosmology into a spiritual journey — an ascent from the mortal to the eternal. Some ideas can be traced back to Plotinus’s Enneads and Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy — Honorius’s primary sources.