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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garrison, Jennifer (Professor of English) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]
Colección:Interventions: new studies in medieval culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.