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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Eucharist throughout history -- 1.1 The Origins of the Eucharist -- 1.2 A Thousand years of History: The Long Middle Ages -- 1.3 A Contested Sacrament -- 1.4 A Sacrament for the Church -- 2 The Miraculous Eucharist -- 2.1 Signs and Wonders -- 2.2 Learning from Miracles -- 2.3 Wonders, Devotions, and New Religious Orders -- 2.4 From Extraordinary to Everyday: The Eucharist and Holiness -- 3 The Meditated Eucharist -- 3.1 The Preached Eucharist: The Borromean Model -- 3.2 Reflecting on the Eucharist: books for Preaching, books for Meditation, Sermon books -- 3.3 Priests and Worshippers before the altar -- 3.4 The sacred appetite: Frequent Meditation for frequent Communion -- 4 The Regulated Eucharist -- 4.1 Norm and Sacrament: Spaces, Ornaments, and Practice -- 4.2 Control, Infraction, Remedy: Pastoral visits -- 4.3 Abuse of the Sacrament: Multiple Communions, False Adoration, Suspicious Viaticums -- 4.4 Different Communion: The Challenging co-existence of Eastern and Latin rites -- 5 The Eucharist in the World -- 5.1 The Eucharist outside Mass: Corpus Christi and Forty Hours' Devotion -- 5.2 From altar to bedside: The Eucharist in the final hour -- 5.3 Eucharistic confraternities: From worship to charity -- 5.4 A violent world: The Eucharist during Peace and War -- 6 The Represented Eucharist -- 6.1 From deeds to words: Eucharistic verses -- 6.2 The Eucharist on Stage: Theatre and Music for the Sacrament -- 6.3 Building for the Sacrament: Architecture and Ornaments for the Eucharist -- 6.4 The Painted Host -- 7 The Desecrated Eucharist -- 7.1 A Profaned Sacrament: Witchcraft, Magic, and Superstitions -- 7.2 A debated Sacrament: Heretics' views on Transubstantiation. 7.3 A derided Sacrament: Jews and Christian Rites -- 7.4 Eucharistic irreverence in Art and Science -- 8 The Eucharist under Siege -- 8.1 Facing the Contemporary World: A Sacrament to re-Christianise Society -- 8.2 A Eucharistic People: Saints, Children, Families, and Nations -- 8.3 From Opposition to Openness -- 8.4 The Eucharist at the Centre of the Clash -- Post Scriptum, or the Irrational -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Eating God examines the history of the Eucharist as a means for understanding transformations in society from the late Middle Ages onwards and will be particularly relevant to those interested in cultural history and the history of Christianity.