The worship or excessive veneration of bread, used in religious and historical contexts to describe reverence toward bread.
From Greek 'artos' (bread) + '-latry' (worship). This theological term emerged in medieval Christendom to describe what some viewed as inappropriate reverence toward bread in religious practice.
This obscure theological insult reveals how seriously medieval religious thinkers debated the meaning of bread in communion—it was literally a matter of life, death, and eternal salvation.
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