medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I am in the process of working on one of Alain of Lille's lesser known works and I have encountered something that seems anachronistic and I was hoping for some guidance. In this work, Alain refers to transubstantiation in Aristotelian phraseology using words like 'accident' and so on. However, this pre-dates Aquinas's definition of transubstantiation in Aristotlian terms by a good 30-40 years. Moreover, it was also written at about the same time that Aristotle's works were being translated into Latin in Western Europe, so it is possible, but unlikely that Alain would have even been familar with his idea of physics.
Or is it?
My questions are: Were the ideas of Aristotle that were later incorporated into the doctrine of the Real Presence discussed in any other classical work that would have been accessible to a medieval audience?
Were there any ideas regarding how the bread and wine physically changed into the body and blood of Christ circulating around this time that may have pre-empted these ideas?
Any books/ articles that discuss 11th-12th century understandings of transubstantiation?
Thanks for the help!
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