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The Medieval Church · c. 1175–1180

On the Sacrament of the Altar

Baldwin of Forde · c. 1125–1190

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What it is

A meditative rather than argumentative treatment of the eucharist, reading it through the Old Testament sacrifices and the church's unity in one bread.

Why it lasted

The most substantial English eucharistic theology of the century, by a Cistercian who died on crusade at Acre.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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