Holy feast and holy fast :
Bynum, Caroline Walker.
Holy feast and holy fast : the religious significance of food to medieval women / Caroline Walker Bynum. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987. - xvi, 444 p., 30 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. - The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics . - New historicism. .
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 303-419.
Religious women in the later Middle Ages. New opportunities ; Female spirituality : diversities and unity -- Fast and feast : the historical background. Fasting in antiquity and the high Middle Ages ; A medieval change : from bread of heaven to the body broken -- Food as a female concern : the complexity of the evidence. Quantitative and fragmentary evidence for women's concern with food ; Men's lives and writings : a comparison -- Food in the lives of women saints. The low countries ; France and Germany ; Italy -- Food in the writings of women mystics. Hadewijch and Beatrice of Nazareth ; Catherine of Siena and Catherine of Genoa -- Food as control of self. Was women's fasting anorexia nervosa? ; Food as control of body : the ascetic context and the question of dualism -- Food as control of circumstance. Food and family ; Food practices and religious roles ; Food practices as rejection of moderation -- The meaning of food : food as physicality. Food and flesh as pleasure and pain ; The late medieval concern with physicality -- Woman as body and as food. Woman as symbol of humanity ; Woman's body as food -- Women's symbols. The meaning of symbolic reversal ; Men's use of female symbols ; Women's symbols as continuity.
0520057228 (alk. paper) 9780520057227 (alk. paper) 0520063295 (alk. paper) 9780520063297 (alk. paper)
85028896
GB88-19009
Food--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.
Food habits--History--To 1500.
Alimentos--Aspectos religiosos--Cristianismo--Edad Media, 600 1500.
Historia social--Edad Media, 500 1500
Hábitos alimenticios--Historia--Hasta 1500
Aliments--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
Femmes--Histoire--500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Habitudes alimentaires--Histoire.
Christendom.
Vrouwen.
Voedingsgewoonten.
Alimentation--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
Habitudes alimentaires--Histoire--Moyen-âge.
Femmes--Histoire--Moyen-âge.
Christian women, 1200-1500. Food Religious aspects
BR253 / .B96 1987
248.46 248.8/43
Holy feast and holy fast : the religious significance of food to medieval women / Caroline Walker Bynum. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987. - xvi, 444 p., 30 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. - The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics . - New historicism. .
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 303-419.
Religious women in the later Middle Ages. New opportunities ; Female spirituality : diversities and unity -- Fast and feast : the historical background. Fasting in antiquity and the high Middle Ages ; A medieval change : from bread of heaven to the body broken -- Food as a female concern : the complexity of the evidence. Quantitative and fragmentary evidence for women's concern with food ; Men's lives and writings : a comparison -- Food in the lives of women saints. The low countries ; France and Germany ; Italy -- Food in the writings of women mystics. Hadewijch and Beatrice of Nazareth ; Catherine of Siena and Catherine of Genoa -- Food as control of self. Was women's fasting anorexia nervosa? ; Food as control of body : the ascetic context and the question of dualism -- Food as control of circumstance. Food and family ; Food practices and religious roles ; Food practices as rejection of moderation -- The meaning of food : food as physicality. Food and flesh as pleasure and pain ; The late medieval concern with physicality -- Woman as body and as food. Woman as symbol of humanity ; Woman's body as food -- Women's symbols. The meaning of symbolic reversal ; Men's use of female symbols ; Women's symbols as continuity.
0520057228 (alk. paper) 9780520057227 (alk. paper) 0520063295 (alk. paper) 9780520063297 (alk. paper)
85028896
GB88-19009
Food--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.
Food habits--History--To 1500.
Alimentos--Aspectos religiosos--Cristianismo--Edad Media, 600 1500.
Historia social--Edad Media, 500 1500
Hábitos alimenticios--Historia--Hasta 1500
Aliments--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
Femmes--Histoire--500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Habitudes alimentaires--Histoire.
Christendom.
Vrouwen.
Voedingsgewoonten.
Alimentation--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
Habitudes alimentaires--Histoire--Moyen-âge.
Femmes--Histoire--Moyen-âge.
Christian women, 1200-1500. Food Religious aspects
BR253 / .B96 1987
248.46 248.8/43