Holy feast and holy fast : the religious significance of food to medieval women /

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987.
Series:New historicism.
Subjects:
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
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