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

Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title 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.

• | Author: Caroline Walker Bynum
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 07, 1988
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780520063297
• | ISBN-10: 0520063295