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Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture

By Miri Rubin

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0521356059, 9780521356053
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
26 MB (27267256 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
447\456
Time added
2022-05-12 16:24:28

Description

This book studies later medieval culture (c. 1150-1500) through its central symbol: the eucharist. From the twelfth century onward the eucharist was designed by the Church as the foremost sacrament. The claim that this ritual brought into presence Christ's own body, and offered it to believers, underpinned the sacramental system and the clerical meditation upon which it depended. The book explores the context in which the sacramental world was created and the cultural processes through which it was disseminated, interpreted and used. With attention to the variety of eucharistic meanings and practices, the book moves from the "design" of the eucharist in the twelfth century to its redesign in the sixteenth--a story of the emergence of a symbol, its use and interpretation and final transformation.

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