Challenging Communion : The Eucharist and Middle English Literature / / Jennifer Garrison.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Columbus : : The Ohio State University Press,, [2017] ©[2017] |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Interventions (Columbus, Ohio)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages). |
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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.