Użytkowe i symboliczne znaczenie roślin leczniczych na planie opactwa Sankt Gallen (pocz. IX wieku)
Norbert Mojżyn
Utility and symbolic meaning of medicinal plants on the Plan Abbey Saint Gall (beginning 9th century) The world Latin Middle Ages was marked by spiritual-corporeal binomial: real space connected with many threads spiritual space. Religious symbolism imagination played a huge role in this binomial. A particular concentration mystical-allegorical meanings present monastic (Latin claustrum). Monks living monasteries were separated double barrier from world: – walls internal discipline (rule). This separation archetypal there border between cosmos chaos, earthly paradise (paradisus terrestris) damned (terra damnata). In such an antithetical, terrestrial supernatural key, culture read various elements life, defi ned vectors time place, ranging temple as eschatological Heavenly Jerusalem, through buildings monastery gardens (biblical Eden), ending cultivated them. Plants grown for functional (edible medicinal) reasons, well reasons (they attributed apotropaic properties) aesthetic (beauty also considered factor). Medicines seen body soul. They had important religious they symbolized virtues or sins. Such understanding can be found document that created Carolingian era, plan Benedictine abbey Gall. provides precise information not only about structure buildings, but plants, individual species places their cultivation within walls.
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