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Index
Holy Feast and Holy Fast CONTENTS LIST OF PLATES PREFACE INTRODUCTION I— THE BACKGROUND 1— Religious Women in the Later Middle Ages New Opportunities Female Spirituality: Diversities and Unity 2— 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 II— THE EVIDENCE 3— 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 4— Food in the Lives of Women Saints The Low Countries France and Germany Italy 5— Food in the Writings of Women Mystics Hadewijch and Beatrice of Nazareth Catherine of Siena and Catherine of Genoa III— THE EXPLANATION 6— Food As Control of Self Was Women's Fasting Anorexia Nervosa? Food as Control of Body: The Ascetic Context and the Question of Dualism 7— Food As Control of Circumstance Food and Family Food Practices and Religious Roles Food Practices As Rejection of Moderation 8— The Meaning of Food: Food As Physicality Food and Flesh As Pleasure and Pain The Late Medieval Concern with Physicality 9— Woman As Body and As Food Woman As Symbol of Humanity Woman's Body As Food 10— Women's Symbols The Meaning of Symbolic Reversal Men's Use of Female Symbols Women's Symbols As Continuity Conclusion EPILOGUE ABBREVIATIONS NOTES PLATES I PLATES II GENERAL INDEX B C
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