A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages Contributor(s): Levy (Editor), Macy (Editor), Van Ausdall (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004201416 ISBN-13: 9789004201415 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $297.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christian Rituals & Practice - Sacraments - History | Europe - Medieval |
Dewey: 264.360 |
LCCN: 2011029854 |
Series: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition |
Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6.7" W x 9.7" (2.51 lbs) 660 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Religious Orientation - Christian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Eucharist in the European Middle Ages was a multimedia event. First and foremost it was a drama, a pageant, a liturgy. The setting itself was impressive. Stunning artwork adorned massive buildings. Underlying and supporting the liturgy, the art and the architecture was a carefully constructed theological world of thought and belief. Popular beliefs, spilling over into the magical, celebrated that presence in several tumultuous forms. Church law regulated how far such practice might go as well as who was allowed to perform the liturgy and how and when it might be performed. This volume presents the medieval Eucharist in all its glory combining introductory essays on the liturgy, art, theology, architecture, devotion and theology. Contributors include: Celia Chazelle, Michael Driscoll, Edward Foley, Stephen Edmund Lahey, Lizette Larson-Miller, Ian Christopher Levy, Gerhard Lutz, Gary Macy, Miri Rubin, Elizabeth Saxon, Kristen Van Ausdall and Joseph Wawrykow. |