Challenging Communion: The Eucharist and Middle English Literature: Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult
Autor Jennifer Garrisonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 feb 2017
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 Eucharist and Middle English Literature identifies a pervasive Middle English literary tradition that rejects simplistic notions of eucharistic promise.
Through new readings of texts such as Piers Plowman, A Revelation of Love, The Book of Margery Kempe, and John Lydgate’s religious poetry, Garrison shows how writers of Middle English often take advantage of the ways in which eucharistic theology itself contests the boundaries between the material and the spiritual, and how these writers challenge the eucharistic ideal of union between Christ and the community of believers. By troubling the definitions of literal and figurative, Middle English writers respond to and reformulate eucharistic theology in politically challenging and poetically complex ways. Garrison argues that Middle English texts often reject simple eucharistic promises in order to offer what they regard as a better version of the Eucharist, one that is intellectually and spiritually demanding and that invites readers to transform themselves and their communities.
Through new readings of texts such as Piers Plowman, A Revelation of Love, The Book of Margery Kempe, and John Lydgate’s religious poetry, Garrison shows how writers of Middle English often take advantage of the ways in which eucharistic theology itself contests the boundaries between the material and the spiritual, and how these writers challenge the eucharistic ideal of union between Christ and the community of believers. By troubling the definitions of literal and figurative, Middle English writers respond to and reformulate eucharistic theology in politically challenging and poetically complex ways. Garrison argues that Middle English texts often reject simple eucharistic promises in order to offer what they regard as a better version of the Eucharist, one that is intellectually and spiritually demanding and that invites readers to transform themselves and their communities.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814253854
ISBN-10: 0814253857
Pagini: 244
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult
ISBN-10: 0814253857
Pagini: 244
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult
Recenzii
“An important book on a subject many medievalists think we already understand but do not.” —Rebecca Krug, University of Minnesota
Notă biografică
Jennifer Garrison is Associate Professor at St. Mary’s University in Calgary, Canada.