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List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Key Names; Introduction; Part One Theology; The Medieval Inheritance; Martin Luther; Huldrych Zwingli and Heinrich Bullinger; Martin Bucer; John Calvin; Anabaptist Theologies of the Eucharist; Anglican Theologies of the Eucharist; The Council of Trent; Part Two Liturgical Practices; Catholic Liturgies of the Eucharist in the Time of Reform; From Sacrifice to Supper: Eucharistic Practice in the Lutheran Reformation; Reformed Liturgical Practices; Anabaptist Liturgical Practices; Anglican Liturgical Practices; The Spanish New World

Part Three Sites of the EucharistSites of the Eucharist; Part Four The Art of the Liturgy; A View of the Eucharist on the Eve of the Protestant Reformation; The Lutheran Tradition; Reformed; Part Five The Eucharist and Sound; The Sounds of Eucharistic Culture; Part Six The Import of the Eucharist; Sacramental Poetics; Enlightenment Aesthetics and the Eucharistic Sign: Lessing's Laocoön; Bibliography; Index

This collection of articles by European and American scholars offers an introduction to the Eucharist in the Reformation, as theology, liturgy, and wellspring for thinking about the relationship between the sensible world and God.