'How excellent is your inebriating cup!’: Bede’s Interpretation of Food Miracles and the Carolingian Era. (original) (raw)

Abstract

Bede’s commentaries were widely read by the Carolingians. His actual influence, however, is better known in outline than in detail. This paper proposes to clarify the level of his influence by examining the reception of his interpretation of Jesus’ food miracles as allegories regarding Scriptural interpretation and the pleasures promised to the spiritual reader. Further, Carolingian adaptations of Bede’s work will be read in light of the broader theological discourse on overindulgence, arguing that such interpretations authorized a form of indulgent pleasure, figured as a type of feasting and inebriation open to all levels of Carolingian society.

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