TY - BOOK ID - 15389866 TI - Challenging Communion : The Eucharist and Middle English Literature PY - 2017 VL - *1 SN - 9780814274637 0814274633 0814274625 0814213235 9780814274620 9780814213230 0814253857 PB - Columbus The Ohio State University Press DB - UniCat KW - Lord’s Supper in literature. KW - English literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Lord's Supper in literature. KW - Christian dogmatics KW - Thematology KW - Old English literature KW - anno 1200-1499 KW - anno 1100-1199 KW - Literature KW - Allegory KW - Body of Christ KW - Eucharist KW - Exemplum KW - God KW - Jesus KW - Laity UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15389866 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. ER -