Problem sakralizacji wina i chleba w późnym średniowieczu i w czasach nowożytnych

• Authors: Jakub Szajt , Krzysztof Wachowski

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THE SACRALIZATION OF BREAD AND WINE IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND MODERN TIMES

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Both Catholics and later Protestants yearned to practice their faith at home. For both, the Last Supper held significance as it was then that Jesus requested the Apostles to drink wine and partake of bread, transfigured respectively into the blood and the flesh of the Lord. Catholics believed that the Transfiguration took place for real, hence their use of tin “Hansekanne” flagons with a pilgrim’s badge or devotional plaques inside them, most often with a scene of the Crucifixion. Protestants treated the Transfiguration in purely symbolic terms and used clay jugs with the scene of the Crucifixion depicted on the outside surface. Moreover, there is a clay plate with a scene of the Crucifixion, which presumably served to sacralize the bread that it held.

Keywords

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Late Middle Ages; Modern Age; sacralization; wine; bread; Hansekanne

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Archeologia Polski
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 199-224

Contributors

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Jakub Szajt

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Krzysztof Wachowski

• Zakład Archeologii Historycznej, Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, ul. Szewska 48, 50-139 Wrocław