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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. <br /><br />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 miracl
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- Author
- Caroline Walker Bynum, Caroline Walker Bynum
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781280078910
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Christian, History, Science
Other editions & translations
- Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (New Historicism) (1987)
- Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Volume 1) (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) (1987)
- Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Volume 1) (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) (2010)
- Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Volume 1) (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) (1988)
- Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Book 1) (1988)
- Pretty. Senza limite (2023)
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