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The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Ser.: Holy Feast and Holy Fast : The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women by Caroline Walker Bynum (1988, Trade Paperback)

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Holy Feast and Holy Fast : The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women, Paperback by Bynum, Caroline Walker, ISBN 0520063295, ISBN-13 9780520063297, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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

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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. Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and have sometimes applied modern medical or psychological theories to them. Using materials based on saints' lives and the religious and mystical writings of medieval women and men, Caroline Walker Bynum uncovers the pattern lying behind these aspects of women's religiosity and behind the fascination men and women felt for such miracles and devotional practices. She argues that food lies at the heart of much of women's piety. Women renounced ordinary food through fasting in order to prepare for receiving extraordinary food in the eucharist. They also offered themselves as food in miracles of feeding and bodily manipulation. Providing both functionalist and phenomenological explanations, Bynum explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. She also 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. The author's interpretation of women's piety offers a new view of the nature of medieval asceticism and, drawing upon both anthropology and feminist theory, she illuminates the distinctive features of women's use of symbols. Rejecting presentist interpretations of women as exploited or masochistic, she shows the power and creativity of women's writing and women's lives.

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University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520063295
ISBN-13
9780520063297
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Author
Caroline Walker Bynum
Publication Name
Holy Feast and Holy Fast : the Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Series
The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Ser.
Publication Year
1988
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
464 Pages

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9in
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0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz

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Series Volume Number
1
Lc Classification Number
Bv4509.5
Table of Content
Foreword Note on the Text Author's Note The Boston Poems Cups 1-12 The Park The Faerie Queene The Moth Poem Image-Nations -4 Les Chiméres Charms Great Companion: Pindar Image-Nations 5-14 and Uncollected Poems Streams I Syntax Pell Mell Great Companion: Robert Duncan Streams II Exody Notes Great Companion: Dante Alighiere Wanders So Oh! Afterword Index of Titles and First Lines
Copyright Date
1988
Topic
Gender Studies, Holidays / General, Christianity / General, Europe / Medieval
Lccn
85-028896
Dewey Decimal
248.4/6
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Religion, History, Social Science

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