Arguing that the consecrated body in the Eucharist is one of the
central metaphors structuring The Divine Comedy, this book is the
first comprehensive exploration of the theme of transubstantiation
across Dante's epic poem. Drawing attention first to the historical
and theological tensions inherent in ideas of transubstantiation
that rippled through Western culture up to the early fourteenth
century, Sheila Nayar engages in a Eucharistic reading of both the
"flesh" allusions and "metamorphosis" motifs that thread through
the entirety of Dante's poem. From the cannibalistic resonances of
the Ugolino episode in the Inferno to the Corpus Christi-like
procession seminal to Purgatory, Nayar demonstrates how these
sacrifice- and Host-related metaphors, allusions, and tropes lead
directly and intentionally to the Comedy's final vision, that of
the Eucharist itself. Arguing that the final revelation in Paradise
is analogically "the Bread of Life," Nayar brings to the fore
Christ's centrality (as sacrament) to The Divine Comedy-a reading
that is certain to alter current-day thinking about Dante's poem.
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