Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (New Historicism)
Book Details
Author(s)
Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN / ASIN
0520057228
ISBN-13
9780520057227
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#2,099,474
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Description
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
