Spiritual meal, identity and community in Bohemia 1400-1650: historical anthropology and the reformation of religious food and textual practices
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F24%3A39922667" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/24:39922667 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11240/24:10471470
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13507486.2023.2289163" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13507486.2023.2289163</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2023.2289163" target="_blank" >10.1080/13507486.2023.2289163</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Spiritual meal, identity and community in Bohemia 1400-1650: historical anthropology and the reformation of religious food and textual practices
Original language description
The article explores the early Bohemian reformation (Utraquism) as an alternative Central European project of church reform that has not been as closely connected with the Western European civilizational narrative as the Lutheran reformation. The authors build on cultural anthropological approaches and on the recent 'material turn'. They draw attention to the close historical associations between holy food and holy texts and look into the reformation of religious food and textual practices. They explore how the chalice functioned as a symbol of inclusivity and collective identity and how this became manifest in material culture. The authors analyse innovations in chalice shape (lips and tubes) and provide evidence of private or family chalices, arguing that such chalices re-introduced elements of social hierarchy in the Utraquist communion. In relation to holy food, the authors also focus on fasting, distinguishing two main lines of discourse: 1) the continuation of the medieval religious discourse of gluttony; and 2) difficulties connected with observing fasting regulations north of the Alps. Finally, they point out that the Bohemian reformation lends itself to a study of changing symbols, as suggested by Peter Burke, and they explore the model-like process through which book(s) largely replaced chalice(s) as the main symbol(s) and source(s) of identity among reformed non-Catholic Christians in the new religious situation in Bohemia after 1620.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-11247S" target="_blank" >GA20-11247S: The Representation and Practice of Social Control in Late Medieval Urban Communities</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d'Histoire
ISSN
1350-7486
e-ISSN
1469-8293
Volume of the periodical
31
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
28
Pages from-to
584-611
UT code for WoS article
001152138400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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