CHALLENGING COMMUNION: The Eucharist and Middle English Literature
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Dedication
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION: Eucharistic Poetics and Christian Community
DEFINING EUCHARISTIC POETICS
POETIC THEOLOGIES
MIDDLE ENGLISH EUCHARISTS
CHAPTER 1: Resisting the Fantasy of Identification in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne
VERNACULAR NARRATIVE AND LAY SALVATION
MEDIATION AND EUCHARISTIC THEOLOGY
VERNACULAR NARRATIVE AND CHRIST’S SACRIFICIAL BODY
MANNYNG’S EUCHARISTIC EXEMPLA
CHAPTER 2: Devotional Submission and the Pearl-Poet
THE PEARL-POET AND ARISTOCRATIC DEVOTION
METAPHOR AND SUBMISSION
LITURGY AND INTERNAL REFORM
CHAPTER 3: Christ’s Allegorical Bodies and the Failure of Community in Piers Plowman
THE ALLEGORICAL PRESENCE
EUCHARIST AS SOCIAL SIGN IN PIERS PLOWMAN
SIGNS OF CHRIST
COMMUNAL FAILURE
CHAPTER 4: Julian of Norwich’s Allegory and the Mediation of Salvation
REDEFINING THE MYSTICAL EUCHARIST
ALLEGORICAL READING
READING SIGNS AND SACRAMENTS
EUCHARISTIC LONGING AND THE CHURCH
CHAPTER 5: The Willful Surrender of Eucharistic Reading in Nicholas Love and Margery Kempe
DEVOTIONAL READING IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
LOVE AND AFFECTION
CORPUS MYSTICUM AND MARGERY KEMPE
READING MARGERY KEMPE AS READER
CHAPTER 6: John Lydgate and the Eucharistic Poetic Tradition: The Making of Community
LYDGATE’S LITERARY EUCHARIST
THE SACRAMENTAL EPISTEMOLOGY OF LYDGATE’S PILGRIMAGE
FIGURATION, COMMUNITY, AND A PROCESSION OF CORPUS CHRISTI
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
INTERVENTIONS: NEW STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE