Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women by Caroline Walker Bynum

Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women

Representations #11

Caroline Walker Bynum

25 pages first pub 1985 (editions) not a book user-added

nonfiction history

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Scholars have recently devoted much attention to the spirituality of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries. In studying late medieval spirituality they have concentrated on the ideals of chastity and poverty - that is, on the renunci...

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