Holy feast and holy fast : the religious significance of food to medieval women
Caroline Walker Bynum (Author)
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including stigmata and inedia (living without eating). The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. It also forms a chapter in the history of women
Print Book, English, 1987
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1987
Student Collection
xvi, 444 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780520057227, 9780520063297, 9780520908789, 0520057228, 0520063295, 0520908783
12974306
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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