Eating Beauty. The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages. By Ann W. Astell
This is a breathtakingly ambitious and wide-ranging yet at the same time deeply personal book which offers complex engagement with medieval and modern Eucharistic thought. Its subtitle is, however, somewhat deceptive: although the main focus of the book is on the later Middle Ages, it actually gives...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Literature and theology
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 239-241 |
| Review of: | Eating beauty (Ithaca, NY [u.a.] : Cornell Univ. Press, 2006) (Pfeiffer, Kerstin)
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| Summary: | This is a breathtakingly ambitious and wide-ranging yet at the same time deeply personal book which offers complex engagement with medieval and modern Eucharistic thought. Its subtitle is, however, somewhat deceptive: although the main focus of the book is on the later Middle Ages, it actually gives a lot of space to modern Eucharistic theologies, most notably those of Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel and Simone Weil., The starting point for Astell is the relationship between faith, beauty and eating. Perceiving an ‘enigmatic link between natural and artistic beauty that is to be contemplated but not eaten, on the one hand, and the Eucharistic beauty that is both seen (with the eyes of faith) and eaten, on the other […]’ (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frn015 |