TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bynum,Caroline Walker
TI  - Holy feast and holy fast: the religious significance of food to medieval women 
T2  - The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics
SN  - 0520057228 (alk. paper)
AV  - BR253 .B96 1987
U1  - 248.46 19
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Food
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Women
KW  - History
KW  - Middle Ages, 500-1500
KW  - Social history
KW  - Medieval, 500-1500
KW  - Food habits
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Alimentos
KW  - Aspectos religiosos
KW  - Edad Media, 600 1500
KW  - Cristianismo
KW  - Historia social
KW  - Edad Media, 500 1500
KW  - Hábitos alimenticios
KW  - Historia
KW  - Hasta 1500
KW  - Aliments
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
KW  - Habitudes alimentaires
KW  - Christendom
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - Voedingsgewoonten
KW  - Alimentation
KW  - ram
KW  - Moyen-âge
KW  - Christian women, 1200-1500
N1  - 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
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