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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162708003321

Autore

Garrison Jennifer (Professor of English)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus, : The Ohio State University Press, 2017

Columbus : , : The Ohio State University Press, , [2017]

©[2017]

ISBN

9780814274637

0814274633

9780814274620

0814274625

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages)

Collana

Interventions: new studies in medieval culture

Disciplina

820.9/38230902

Soggetti

English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

Lord's Supper in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.