Holy Feast and Holy Fast

The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women

Description

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.
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Writer
Bynum, Caroline Walker
Title
Holy Feast and Holy Fast
Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1988
Language
English
Pages
464
Weight
704 gr
EAN
9780520063297
Dimensions
228 x 153 x 29 mm
Binding format
Paperback / softback

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