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Article: Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages.(Book review)
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- Christianity and Literature
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- March 22, 2008
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Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages. By Ann W. Astell. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8014-4466-1. Pp. xiii + 285. $39.95.
Ann Astell's Eating Beauty disarms criticism, and this may be both its greatest strength and weakness as a book. It is ambitious, described in its subtitle as a study of The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages. In some sense, this volume is the inevitable and impressive culmination of Astell's series of books on topics as diverse as the Song of Songs, Job, Boethius, Chaucer, and Joan of Arc--a personal statement and a deft defense of her long-held view that medieval ...