Tasting Religious Thought and Experience in Late-Medieval English Literature

By: Caleb D. Molstad

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Hardcover | 5 February 2026

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Through 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.

In 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 âvernacular theology.â Molstad places focus on poetic and prose works including William Langlandâs Piers Plowman, Nicholas Loveâs A Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, and Walter Hiltonâs Scale of Perfection, Pearl-Poetâs Cleanness, and A Ladder of Foure Ronges. 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.

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