2008/01/01 by Monika Siama · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Historical and Archaeological Studies #Medieval European History and Architecture #Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland #Worship #Cult #SAINT #Mythology #Art #Symbol (formal) #Humanities #History #Art history #Classics #Theology #Ancient history #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.3406/slave.2008.7124
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The Hagiographical Palimpsest of Early Medieval Poland: Spatial and Temporal Points of Reference in the Worship of Saint Stanislas of Szczepanowo From the example of the Medieval worship of Saint Stanislas of Szczepanowo, an eleventh-century martyr, the article aims to evoke the symbolic value of time and space in the advent of the first local hagiographical cults in Poland before the end of the 13th century. Referring to the hagiographical file about that bishop of Cracow, the approach consists in relating the evolution of his worship, the official one and the popular one, so as to emphasize the spatial and temporal points of reference allowing to prove the continuation of the ancient autochthonous myths under Christian veneer. Considering the symbolic dimension of two liturgical commemoration dates dedicated to Saint Stanislas of Szczepanowo may lead to a few significant mythological dues. Such examples show some ways taken by Christian acculturation on the ground occupied by former Indo-European pagan religion.