Challenging Communion The Eucharist and Middle English Literature
In this book, Jennifer Garrison examines literary representations of the central symbol of later medieval religious culture: the Eucharist. In contrast to scholarship that depicts mainstream believers as enthusiastically and simplistically embracing the Eucharist, Challenging Communion: The Eucharis...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbus
The Ohio State University Press
2017
Columbus : [2017] |
| Colección: | Interventions (Columbus, Ohio)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426265606719 |
| Sumario: | In this book, Jennifer Garrison examines literary representations of the central symbol of later medieval religious culture: the Eucharist. In contrast to scholarship that depicts mainstream believers as enthusiastically and simplistically embracing the Eucharist, Challenging Communion: The Eucharist and Middle English Literature identifies a pervasive Middle English literary tradition that rejects simplistic notions of eucharistic promise. Through new readings of texts such as Piers Plowman, A Revelation of Love, The Book of Margery Kempe, and John Lydgate's religious poetry, Garrison shows how writers of Middle English often take advantage of the ways in which eucharistic theology itself contests the boundaries between the material and the spiritual, and how these writers challenge the eucharistic idea of union between Christ and the community of believers. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814274637 9780814274620 |
