Title: Eating beauty : the Eucharist and the spiritual arts of the Middle Ages /
Authors: Astell, Ann W.,
Year: 2016
Subjects: Lord's Supper Catholic Church History of doctrines; Lord's Supper Catholic Church History of doctrines; Aesthetics Religious aspects Catholic Church; Food Religious aspects Catholic Church; Spiritual life Catholic Church History of doctrines; Spiritual life Catholic Church History of doctrines
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.