Eating beauty : the Eucharist and the spiritual arts of the Middle Ages /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Astell, Ann W.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Subjects:	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.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

"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.