Eating beauty : the Eucharist and the spiritual arts of the Middle Ages /
Astell, Ann W.
Eating beauty : the Eucharist and the spiritual arts of the Middle Ages / Ann W. Astell. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, (c)2006. - 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages, 8. pages of plates) : color illustrations.
Includes bibliographies 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.
9781501704550
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.
Electronic Books.
BV823 / .E285 2006
Eating beauty : the Eucharist and the spiritual arts of the Middle Ages / Ann W. Astell. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, (c)2006. - 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages, 8. pages of plates) : color illustrations.
Includes bibliographies 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.
9781501704550
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.
Electronic Books.
BV823 / .E285 2006