Challenging communion : the Eucharist and Middle English literature

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garrison, Jennifer (Professor of English) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]
Series:Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
Subjects:
1100-1500
Lord's Supper in literature.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Middle English
Lord's Supper in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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.

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