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Autore |
Garrison Jennifer (Professor of English) |
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Titolo |
Challenging Communion : The Eucharist and Middle English Literature / / Jennifer Garrison |
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Columbus, : The Ohio State University Press, 2017 |
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Columbus : , : The Ohio State University Press, , [2017] |
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©[2017] |
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ISBN |
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9780814274637 |
0814274633 |
9780814274620 |
0814274625 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 pages) |
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Interventions: new studies in medieval culture |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism |
Lord's Supper in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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