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Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics)
Caroline Walker Bynum
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Paperback. Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC1; HRCR; HRCV; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 686. The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. 300 pages, 24ill. Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRCC1; HRCR; HRCV; JFSJ1. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight: 686.
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including stigmata and inedia (living without eating). The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. It also forms a chapter in the history of women. Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and have sometimes applied modern medical or psychological theories to them. ... Read more
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including stigmata and inedia (living without eating). The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. It also forms a chapter in the history of women. Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and have sometimes applied modern medical or psychological theories to them. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520063297
SKU
V9780520063297
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About Caroline Walker Bynum
Caroline Walker Bynum is Western Medieval History Professor Emerita School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study.
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