The Eucharist to 1500; 2. Augsburg; 3. The Lutheran Eucharist; 4. The first major study of the understandings of the Eucharist and its liturgy that divided sixteenth century western Christendom. The theologians are well-explained, the liturgies understood, and the historical settings examined with both an eye for detail and an ability to paint the sort of picture that awakens the imagination.