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Bynum: Holy Feast Holy Fast (cloth): Religious Significance of Food to Mediaeval Women (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) - Hardcover

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Synopsis

Examines the role of food in the religion of women in the Middle Ages and argues that food practices enabled women to exert power in the family and define their religious vocations

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Review

"A rich, positive and thoughtful description of the way some medieval women managed to control and develop their own subjectivities and social roles."--"Women's Review of Books

About the Author

Caroline Walker Bynum is Western Medieval History Professor Emerita School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study.

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