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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
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women - The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics
Caroline Walker Bynum
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.
300 pages, 24ill.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 7, 1988 |
ISBN13 | 9780520063297 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 464 |
Dimensions | 153 × 229 × 31 mm · 768 g |
Language | English |
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