03273oam 22006014a 450 991016270800332120241204164606.09780814274637081427463397808142746200814274625(CKB)3710000001044010(MiAaPQ)EBC4793445(OCoLC)1103698145(MdBmJHUP)muse73539(OCoLC)970693687(ScCtBLL)469fdb25-9c4d-4cc1-8b01-77f032a63f8c(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32115(Perlego)2329929(oapen)doab32115(EXLCZ)99371000000104401020160926d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierChallenging CommunionThe Eucharist and Middle English Literature /Jennifer GarrisonColumbusThe Ohio State University Press2017Columbus :The Ohio State University Press,[2017]©[2017]1 online resource (208 pages)Interventions: new studies in medieval culture9780814253854 0814253857 9780814213230 0814213235 Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-201) and index.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.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.Interventions (Columbus, Ohio)English literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismLord's Supper in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Lord's Supper in literature.820.9/38230902Garrison Jennifer(Professor of English),953412MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910162708003321Challenging Communion2155563UNINA