Challenging Communion: The Eucharist and Middle English Literature

by Jennifer Garrison

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814213235
• ISBN13: 9780814213230
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 1.8" x 9.2"