Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (New Historicism)
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Author(s)Caroline Walker Bynum
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN / ASIN0520057228
ISBN-139780520057227
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Sales Rank2,099,474
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Examines the role of food in the religion of women in the Middle Ages and argues that food practices enabled women to exert power in the family and define their religious vocations