Holy feast and holy fast : the religious significance of food to medieval women /

Bynum, Caroline Walker.

Holy feast and holy fast : the religious significance of food to medieval women / Caroline Walker Bynum. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987. - xvi, 444 p., 30 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. - The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics . - New historicism. .

Also available online. Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. 303-419.

0520057228 (alk. paper)

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Food habits--History.
Food--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.

BR253 / .B96 1987

248.4 / B995h