Title Holy feast and holy fast : the religious significance of food to medieval women / Caroline Walker Bynum

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 444 p., 30 p. of plates ) Series The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics New historicism. Contents Religious women in the later Middle Ages. New opportunities ; Female spirituality : diversities and unity -- Fast and feast : the historical background. Fasting in antiquity and the high Middle Ages ; A medieval change : from bread of heaven to the body broken -- Food as a female concern : the complexity of the evidence. Quantitative and fragmentary evidence for women's concern with food ; Men's lives and writings : a comparison -- Food in the lives of women saints. The low countries ; France and Germany ; Italy -- Food in the writings of women mystics. Hadewijch and Beatrice of Nazareth ; Catherine of Siena and Catherine of Genoa -- Food as control of self. Was women's fasting anorexia nervosa? ; Food as control of body : the ascetic context and the question of dualism -- Food as control of circumstance. Food and family ; Food practices and religious roles ; Food practices as rejection of moderation -- The meaning of food : food as physicality. Food and flesh as pleasure and pain ; The late medieval concern with physicality -- Woman as body and as food. Woman as symbol of humanity ; Woman's body as food -- Women's symbols. The meaning of symbolic reversal ; Men's use of female symbols ; Women's symbols as continuity Summary 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 stigmata and inedia (living without eating). The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. It also forms a chapter in the history of women. Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and ha Analysis 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 Bibliography Bibliography: p. 303-419 Notes Includes indexes English Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject 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 Christianity. 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. Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021700784 ISBN 9780520908789 0520908783 0585326487 9780585326481 9780520057227 0520057228 128007891X 9781280078910 9786613520180 6613520187

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