Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women - The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics - Caroline Walker Bynum - Books - University of California Press - 9780520063297 - January 7, 1988
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Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women - The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics

Caroline Walker Bynum

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Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women - The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics

Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title 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.


300 pages, 24ill.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 7, 1988
ISBN13 9780520063297
Publishers University of California Press
Pages 464
Dimensions 153 × 229 × 31 mm   ·   768 g
Language English  

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