Challenging Communion : The Eucharist and Middle English Literature / Jennifer Garrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brownell, Jennifer Garrison, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 idea of union between Christ and the community of believers.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2016 Front List Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100035

ISBN:

9780814274637

OCLC:

970693687

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access