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. .
Includes indexes.
Bibliography: p. 303-419.
0520057228 (alk. paper)
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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.