Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) (Volume 1)
Caroline Walker Bynum examines the religious significance of food to medieval women, considering how eating, feasting, and fasting carried cultural and devotional meaning. Part of The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, this scholarly volume explores medieval religious history through the study of bodily practices and women’s experience.
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Holy Feast and Holy Fast examines the religious significance of food in the lives and practices of medieval women.
Caroline Walker Bynum considers eating, feasting, and fasting as subjects of cultural and religious meaning.
The book focuses on women in the medieval period and connects bodily practices with the study of religious history.
Published as part of The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, this volume offers a scholarly approach to medieval culture and devotion.
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