CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Trudy Eden

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO FOOD AND CHRISTIANITY

Ken Albala

1. THE URBAN INFLUENCE: SHOPPING AND CONSUMPTION AT THE FLORENTINE MONASTERY OF SANTA TRINITÀ IN THE MID-FOURTEENTH CENTURY

Salvatore D. S. Musumeci

2. THE IDEOLOGY OF FASTING IN THE REFORMATION ERA

Ken Albala

3. “THE FOOD POLICE”: SUMPTUARY PROHIBITIONS ON FOOD IN THE REFORMATION

Johanna B. Moyer

4. DIRTY THINGS: BREAD, MAIZE, WOMEN, AND CHRISTIAN IDENTITY IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA

Heather Martel

5. ENLIGHTENED FASTING: RELIGIOUS CONVICTION, SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY, AND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE

Sydney Watts

6. The SANCTITY OF BREAD: MISSIONARIES AND THE PROMOTION OF WHEAT GROWING AMONG THE NEW ZEALAND MAORI

Hazel Petrie

7. COMMENSALITY AND LOVE FEAST: THE AGAPE MEAL IN THE LATE NINETEENTHAND EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRETHREN IN CHRIST CHURCH

Heidi Oberholtzer Lee

8. METAPHYSICS AND MEATLESS MEALS: WHY FOOD MATTERED WHEN THE MIND WAS EVERYTHING

Trudy Eden

9. FASTING AND FOOD HABITS IN THE EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH

Antonia-Leda Matalas, Eleni Tourlouki, and Chrystalleni Lazarou

10. DIVINE DIETING: A CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF CHRISTIAN WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAMS

Samantha Kwan amd Christine Sheikh

11. EATING IN SILENCE IN AN ENGLISH BENEDICTINE MONASTERY

Richard D. G. Irvine

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX