Challenging Communion : The Eucharist and Middle English Literature

Challenging Communion The Eucharist and Middle English Literature

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Garrison, Jennifer (Professor of English), author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus The Ohio State University Press 2017
Columbus : [2017]
Colección:Interventions (Columbus, Ohio)
Materias:
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Lord's Supper in literature.
Literature
Allegory
Body of Christ
Eucharist
Exemplum
God
Jesus
Laity
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426265606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Resisting the fantasy of identification in Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne
  • Devotional submission and the Pearl-poet
  • Christ's allegorical bodies and the failure of community in Piers Plowman
  • Julian of Norwich's Allegory and the mediation of salvation
  • The willful surrender of eucharistic reading in Nicholas Love and Margery Kempe
  • John Lydgate and the eucharistic poetic tradition: the making of community
  • Conclusion.

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