Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature

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Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature examines vernacular authors expression of religious experience and theology through metaphors of food and consumption.
It explores how this practicewhich the author terms alimentary theologyoffers a window into the embodied, social, and experiential nature of late medieval religion at a time of swift religious and linguistic change in England.

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Caleb D. Molstad is a research affiliate at the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities