Theologies of Consumption: Eucharistic Thought and Food Practices in the Middle Ages
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Christiana Purdy Moudarres, Salvatore Musumeci
Organizer Affiliation
Yale Univ., Bryan College
Presider Name
Christiana Purdy Moudarres
Paper Title 1
The Silent Revolution of the Eucharistic Experience
Presenter 1 Name
Florin Berindeanu
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Case Western Reserve Univ.
Paper Title 2
Fasting and Eucharistic Desire in the Old French Ovidian Lais and the Lais of Marie de France
Presenter 2 Name
Stefanie Goyette
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Harvard Univ.
Start Date
9-5-2014 1:30 PM
Session Location
Valley III Stinson 303
Description
With its reform and regulation of the liturgy, the Carolingian Renaissance heralded an unprecedented fascination with the archetypal Christian feast, the Eucharist. From the first full-length treatise on the subject by Paschasius in 831, De corpore et sanguine domini, to the festival in its honor proposed by Juliana of Liège four centuries later, the Feast of Corpus Christi, the consumption of Christ’s body and blood lay at the forefront of theological debate and popular devotion throughout the later Middle Ages. As theologians assessed the nature of Christ’s presence in the host through forays into natural philosophy and metaphysics, believers professed its power through bouts of ecstasy and preparatory fasts. Welcoming a range of disciplines and media, this panel will examine the development of Eucharistic thought vis-à-vis medieval rituals of consumption, both sacred and profane.
Christiana T. Purdy Moudarres
Theologies of Consumption: Eucharistic Thought and Food Practices in the Middle Ages
Valley III Stinson 303
With its reform and regulation of the liturgy, the Carolingian Renaissance heralded an unprecedented fascination with the archetypal Christian feast, the Eucharist. From the first full-length treatise on the subject by Paschasius in 831, De corpore et sanguine domini, to the festival in its honor proposed by Juliana of Liège four centuries later, the Feast of Corpus Christi, the consumption of Christ’s body and blood lay at the forefront of theological debate and popular devotion throughout the later Middle Ages. As theologians assessed the nature of Christ’s presence in the host through forays into natural philosophy and metaphysics, believers professed its power through bouts of ecstasy and preparatory fasts. Welcoming a range of disciplines and media, this panel will examine the development of Eucharistic thought vis-à-vis medieval rituals of consumption, both sacred and profane.
Christiana T. Purdy Moudarres