Holy Feast and Holy Fast

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Walker Bynum is Western Medieval History Professor Emerita School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. Klappentext Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. Zusammenfassung Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men meant when they too associated women with food and flesh. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Note on the Text Author's Note The Boston Poems Cups 1-12 The Park The Faerie Queene The Moth Poem Image-Nations -4 Les Chiméres Charms Great Companion: Pindar Image-Nations 5-14 and Uncollected Poems Streams I Syntax Pell Mell Great Companion: Robert Duncan Streams II Exody Notes Great Companion: Dante Alighiere Wanders So Oh! Afterword Index of Titles and First Lines

Product details

• Authors: Bynum, Caroline Walker Bynum, Bynum Caroline Walker
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.1988
• EAN: 9780520063297
• ISBN: 978-0-520-06329-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 28 mm
• Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics; The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Christianity, Christian life & practice, History of Religion, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Christian life and practice, Gender studies: women and girls, Christian worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, RELIGION / Christian Living / Women's Interests, The Early Church