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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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.