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

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

Caroline Walker Bynum

464 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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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 d...

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