{"product_id":"tasting-religious-thought-and-experience-caleb-d-molstad-9781666979701","title":"Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThrough 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e, Nicholas Love's A \u003ci\u003eMirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ\u003c\/i\u003e, and Walter Hilton's \u003ci\u003eScale of Perfection, Pearl-Poet's Cleanness, and A Ladder of Foure Ronges.\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Caleb D. Molstad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1666979708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781666979701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11h x 1.11w x 1.11d","brand":"Caleb D. Molstad","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48217802506495,"sku":"9781666979701","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7f596722-766d-4d0a-81c1-b2e2c993f3cc.jpg?v=1771999548","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tasting-religious-thought-and-experience-caleb-d-molstad-9781666979701","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}