TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garrison, Jennifer
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.26530/oapen_625760
ID  - OAPEN ID: 625760
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 970693687
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31701
KW  - Literature
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Body of Christ
KW  - Eucharist
KW  - Exemplum
KW  - God
KW  - Jesus
KW  - Laity
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31701/1/625760.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31701/1/625760.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31701/1/625760.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32115
PB  - The Ohio State University Press
PP  - Columbus
PY  - 2017-01-01
SN  - 9780814274637
TI  - Challenging Communion : The Eucharist and Middle English Literature
ER  - 
