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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Huvudupphovsman: Garrison, Jennifer (Professor of English) (Författare, medförfattare)
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • 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.