Foot kiss
The Pope lets his feet be kissed by secular rulers, from Lucas Cranach the Elder , Passional Christi and Antichristi
Caricature by Wilhelm Scholz : The Pope and the Reich Chancellor ask each other to kiss their feet as a sign of submission. Caption: Pontifex: “Well please, don't be embarrassed!” Chancellor Bismarck: “Please also!” . From the Kladderadatsch , No. 14/15 (March 18, 1878).
The foot kiss is a historic gesture of submission . In the Middle Ages and up to modern times, it had mainly symbolic and legal significance, for example as an act of submission by the feudal man to the emperor in certain situations or by secular princes to the pope .
Today the kiss on the feet has almost completely disappeared.
literature
- Heinrich Joseph Wetzer: Church Lexicon. Volume 4, Herder'sche Buchhandlung, Freiburg im Breisgau 1850.
- JG Siegmayer: Historical compilation of the most remarkable presumptions of the Popes about the Protestant princes and peoples. at a. W. Hayn, Berlin 1839.
- H. Weiss: Costume customer. Published by Ebner & Seubert, Stuttgart 1872.
See also
Web links
Commons : Kiss of the Foot - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Fußkuss - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
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