A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20141-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 660 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1215 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

The Eucharist in the European Middle Ages was a multimedia event. First and foremost it was a drama, a pageant, a liturgy. The setting itself was impressive. Stunning artwork adorned massive buildings. Underlying and supporting the liturgy, the art and the architecture was a carefully constructed theological world of thought and belief. Popular beliefs, spilling over into the magical, celebrated that presence in several tumultuous forms. Church law regulated how far such practice might go as well as who was allowed to perform the liturgy and how and when it might be performed. This volume presents the medieval Eucharist in all its glory combining introductory essays on the liturgy, art, theology, architecture, devotion and theology.

Contributors include: Celia Chazelle, Michael Driscoll, Edward Foley, Stephen Edmund Lahey, Lizette Larson-Miller, Ian Christopher Levy, Gerhard Lutz, Gary Macy, Miri Rubin, Elizabeth Saxon, Kristen Van Ausdall and Joseph Wawrykow.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levy, Ian

Macy, Gary

Ausdall, Kristen van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Christliche Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Christopher Levy, Ph.D. (1997) in Theology, Marquette University, is Associate Professor of Theology at Providence College in Rhode Island. His work concentrates on sacramental theology and biblical exegesis in the Middle Ages.

Gary Macy, Ph.D. (1978) in Divinity, Cambridge University, is John Nobili, S.J. Professor of Theology at Santa Clara University. He has published extensively on Christian theology of rituals in the Middle Ages, including The Hidden History of Women's Ordination (OUP, 2008)

Kristen Van Ausdall, Ph.D. (1994) in Art History, Rutgers University, is Associate Professor of Art History at Kenyon College in Ohio. Her work focuses late medieval and early modern sacramental art and micro-architecture.