Eating beauty : the Eucharist and the spiritual arts of the Middle Ages / Ann W. Astell.
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages, [8] pages of plates) : color illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781501704550
- 1501704559
- Lord's Supper -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Lord's Supper -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines -- 16th century
- Aesthetics -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- Food -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- Spiritual life -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Spiritual life -- Catholic Church -- History of doctrines -- 16th century
- Eucharistie
- Esthetische ervaring
- Heiligen
- Geschiedenis (vorm)
- RELIGION / Christian Life / General
- PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
- 248.09/02 22
- BV823 .A77 2006eb
- 11.74
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.
"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.
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