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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bynum, Caroline Walker
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987.
Colección:New historicism.
Temas:
To 1500
Food > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Women > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Social history > Medieval, 500-1500.
Food habits > History > To 1500.
Christianity.
Medicine, Medieval.
Food > Religious aspects.
Food habits > History.
Food habits.
Christianity
Feeding Behavior
History, Medieval
Aliments > Aspect religieux.
Femmes > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Habitudes alimentaires > Histoire.
Histoire sociale > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Christianisme.
Habitudes alimentaires.
Médecine médiévale.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Spiritual Growth.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Discipleship.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Food habits
Social history > Medieval
Women > Middle Ages
Christendom.
Vrouwen.
Eetcultuur.
Alimentation > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Habitudes alimentaires > Histoire > Moyen-âge.
Femmes > Histoire > Moyen-âge.
anthropology.
catholicism.
devotional practices.
eucharist.
fasting.
feminism.
feminist theory.
food studies.
food.
gender studies.
gender.
historiography.
history.
inedia.
medieval asceticism.
medieval religion.
medieval society.
medieval women.
middle ages.
miracles.
mysticism.
nonfiction.
piety.
religion.
religiosity.
religious studies.
religious vocation.
religious women.
renunciation.
saints lives.
saints.
stigmata.
symbolism.
western europe.
women and religion.
womens lives.
womens studies.
womens writing.
world history.
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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 ha.
Notas:Includes indexes.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 444 p., 30 p. of plates ).
Bibliografía:Bibliography: p. 303-419.
ISBN:9780520908789
0520908783
0585326487
9780585326481
9780520057227
0520057228
128007891X
9781280078910
9786613520180
6613520187

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