Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1988
Series: Book 1 of 4 - The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics
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Black and white images inside. Book is clean and tight without inside markings. Recent studies of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century spirituality have focused on poverty and chastity as the basic motifs of religious life.
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- Title
- Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
- Author
- Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Publisher
- University of California Press, Berkeley
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0520063295
- ISBN 13
- 9780520063297
- Item weight
- 2 pounds
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Series
- Book 1 of 4: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics
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 miracles of feeding and bodily manipulation.
Providing both functionalist and phenomenological explanations, Bynum explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. She also describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. The author's interpretation of women's piety offers a new view of the nature of medieval asceticism and, drawing upon both anthropology and feminist theory, she illuminates the distinctive features of women's use of symbols. Rejecting presentist interpretations of women as exploited or masochistic, she shows the power and creativity of women's writing and women's lives.
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