Add to ORKGCyprian\u27s Epistle 63 represents the earliest extant account of the proper meaning and administration of the eucharistic cup. Against a group of Christians who were taking only water, Cyprian argues that wine is necessary for the ritual to be effective. While there has been much discussion surrounding the biblical references marshaled by Cyprian to prove his point, this article explores the extent to which those references are inflected through lexical and conceptual categories relating to the medical usage of wine. Wine figured prominently in literature on illness, health, and healing that proliferated during the Roman Empire. This article locates Cyprian within that broader dynamic, and argues that his emphasis on the health-giving effe...
Christianity, a religious minority group in the Roman Empire, had to often bear the brunt of false a...
Humankind, for Gregory of Nyssa, was poisoned through a primordial act of eating the forbidden fruit...
peer reviewedSi les Égyptiens fabriquaient et consommaient de la bière et du vin depuis les débuts d...
Cyprian’s Epistle 63 represents the earliest extant account of the proper meaning and administration...
In the medieval western collections of medical recipes, references to theoretically non-consecrated ...
In the medieval western collections of medical recipes, references to theoretically non-consecrated ...
In the medieval western collections of medical recipes, references to theoretically non-consecrated ...
The history of wine use as a medicine dates back to antiquity. However, it has been rediscovered and...
This article examines how the use of libation imagery, such as bowls (phialai) and wine, in the Book...
This article examines how the use of libation imagery, such as bowls (phialai) and wine, in the Book...
The Eucharist, a ritual meal which is also called communion, the Mass, and the Lord\u27s Supper, is,...
This thesis explores the absence of the chalice in the Christian ritual of the Eucharisti n the thir...
The present study has resulted from a close reading of prescriptions for therapeutic wines inserted ...
Why do people alternate between accolades and censure about the powers they perceive in wine? By loo...
This paper focuses on the intertwining of religious healing and mundane medicine and investigates ho...
Christianity, a religious minority group in the Roman Empire, had to often bear the brunt of false a...
Humankind, for Gregory of Nyssa, was poisoned through a primordial act of eating the forbidden fruit...
peer reviewedSi les Égyptiens fabriquaient et consommaient de la bière et du vin depuis les débuts d...
Cyprian’s Epistle 63 represents the earliest extant account of the proper meaning and administration...
In the medieval western collections of medical recipes, references to theoretically non-consecrated ...
In the medieval western collections of medical recipes, references to theoretically non-consecrated ...
In the medieval western collections of medical recipes, references to theoretically non-consecrated ...
The history of wine use as a medicine dates back to antiquity. However, it has been rediscovered and...
This article examines how the use of libation imagery, such as bowls (phialai) and wine, in the Book...
This article examines how the use of libation imagery, such as bowls (phialai) and wine, in the Book...
The Eucharist, a ritual meal which is also called communion, the Mass, and the Lord\u27s Supper, is,...
This thesis explores the absence of the chalice in the Christian ritual of the Eucharisti n the thir...
The present study has resulted from a close reading of prescriptions for therapeutic wines inserted ...
Why do people alternate between accolades and censure about the powers they perceive in wine? By loo...
This paper focuses on the intertwining of religious healing and mundane medicine and investigates ho...
Christianity, a religious minority group in the Roman Empire, had to often bear the brunt of false a...
Humankind, for Gregory of Nyssa, was poisoned through a primordial act of eating the forbidden fruit...
peer reviewedSi les Égyptiens fabriquaient et consommaient de la bière et du vin depuis les débuts d...