Challenging Communion : The Eucharist and Middle English Literature

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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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
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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