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Eating beauty : the Eucharist and the spiritual arts of the Middle Ages
- Title
- Eating beauty : the Eucharist and the spiritual arts of the Middle Ages / Ann W. Astell.
- Author
- Astell, Ann W.
- Publication
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
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- Description
- xiii, 296 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Spiritual life > Catholic Church > History of doctrines > 16th century
- Lord's Supper > Catholic Church > History of doctrines > 16th century
- Food > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
- Lord's Supper > Catholic Church > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Spiritual life > Catholic Church > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Aesthetics > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-285) and index.
- Contents
- "Taste and see" : the eating of beauty -- The apple and the Eucharist : foods for theological aesthetics -- "Hidden manna" : Bernard of Clairvaux, Gertrude of Helfta, and the monastic art of humility -- "Adorned with wounds" : Saint Bonaventure's Legenda maior and the Franciscan art of poverty -- "Imitate me as I imitate Christ" : three Catherines, the food of souls, and the Dominican art of preaching -- The Eucharist, the Spiritual exercises, and the art of obedience : Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Michelangelo -- Weil and Hegel : a eucharistic "ante-/anti-aesthetic" aesthetics? -- To (fail to) conclude : eucharists without end.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-14355
- ISBN
- 0801444667 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801444661 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006006245
- 9780801444661
- OCLC
- 64453335
- Author
- Astell, Ann W.
- Title
- Eating beauty : the Eucharist and the spiritual arts of the Middle Ages / Ann W. Astell.
- Imprint
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-285) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780801444661
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-14355