ISBN:
0520057228
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 444 pages, 30 pages of plates
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics
DDC:
248.4
Keywords:
Geschichte 1200-1500
;
Geschichte 500-1500
;
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
;
Alimentos / Aspectos religiosos / Edad Media, 600 1500 / Cristianismo
;
Historia social / Edad Media, 500 1500
;
Hábitos alimenticios / Historia / Hasta 1500
;
Aliments / Aspect religieux / Christianisme
;
Femmes / Histoire / 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
;
Habitudes alimentaires / Histoire
;
Christentum
;
Frau
;
Geschichte
;
Religion
;
Sozialgeschichte
;
Food habits History
;
Food Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Women History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Lebensmittel
;
Symbol
;
Christentum
;
Heilige
;
Ernährungsgewohnheit
;
Speise
;
Frau
;
Christentum
;
Frau
;
Ernährungsgewohnheit
;
Speise
;
Lebensmittel
;
Symbol
;
Geschichte 1200-1500
;
Christentum
;
Heilige
;
Frau
;
Ernährungsgewohnheit
;
Speise
;
Geschichte 500-1500
;
Frau
;
Lebensmittel
;
Symbol
;
Christentum
;
Geschichte 1200-1500
Description / Table of 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-419) and indexes
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