Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Medieval Literature
ISBN-10
1666979708
ISBN-13
9781666979701
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Rowman & Littlefield
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GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 16th, 2026
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216 Pages
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460 grams
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23.00 x 16.20 x 1.80 cms
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Literary studies: ancient, classical and medievalLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval
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An examination of vernacular authors' expression of religious experience and theology through metaphors of food and consumption.
Through an analysis of vernacular metaphors of food and consumption for religious experience and theology in late-fourteenth and early fifteenth century England, Caleb D. Molstad explores what that language reveals about late-medieval religion during a time of swift religious and linguistic change.
In the move from Latin to Middle English, medieval authors gave vibrant expression to religious ideas through the emerging literary language, a phenomenon Nicholas Watson has termed "vernacular theology." Molstad places focus on poetic and prose works including William Langland''s Piers Plowman, Nicholas Love''s A Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, and Walter Hilton''s Scale of Perfection, Pearl-Poet''s Cleanness, and A Ladder of Foure Ronges. Alimentary metaphors not only make religious concepts more accessible to a non-educated, lay audience, the language of food and consumption alters the shape of the religious content communicated through it. This book employs cognitive linguistics and food studies to explore the transcultural, sociological, anthropological, and historical significance of the food and foodways behind the metaphorical language and the theological transformations the metaphors produce.
In the move from Latin to Middle English, medieval authors gave vibrant expression to religious ideas through the emerging literary language, a phenomenon Nicholas Watson has termed "vernacular theology." Molstad places focus on poetic and prose works including William Langland''s Piers Plowman, Nicholas Love''s A Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, and Walter Hilton''s Scale of Perfection, Pearl-Poet''s Cleanness, and A Ladder of Foure Ronges. Alimentary metaphors not only make religious concepts more accessible to a non-educated, lay audience, the language of food and consumption alters the shape of the religious content communicated through it. This book employs cognitive linguistics and food studies to explore the transcultural, sociological, anthropological, and historical significance of the food and foodways behind the metaphorical language and the theological transformations the metaphors produce.
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