Dante’s Sacred Poem: Flesh and the Centrality of the Eucharist to the Divine Comedy

Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nPreface\n1 The Immutable Feast of Dante’s Comedy: Introduction\n	Notes\n2 The Eucharist to the Time of Dante\n	From the Jewish table to the early medieval tabernacle\n	“All Eat of Him, yet Each One Eats Him Whole”\n	Wonder and dissent: The long twelfth century\n	The thirteenth century and the bodies of Christ\n	Notes\n3 Flesh Corruptible: Dante’s Inferno\n	Tre, triune, Trinity: A numerological preamble\n	The holy midway\n	The monstrously mutable, nonevacuable body\n	Flesh and blood—and guts\n	Fathers, sons—and the missing Holy Spirit\n	The food of full-grown men\n	Notes\n4 Betwixt and Between: Dante’s Purgatory\n	The reorientation toward Church and Christ\n	The cross at the altar\n	Preparing for the bread of angels\n	Notes\n5 Bread of Angels: Dante’s Paradise\n	Bread from heaven\n	Three and two and one\n	The consummate canto\n	Spiritual seeing and the elevation of the Host\n	Notes\n6 Conclusion\n	Notes\nBibliography\nIndex