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  <title><![CDATA[Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (The New Historicism : Studies in Cultural Poetics, 1)]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1987</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Caroline Walker Bynum]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An extremely interesting and absorbing look at female religiosity and food in medieval western Europe from three angles: the religious meaning of food for women; the forms of medieval asceticism for them; and the significance of gender roles within religious experience. I agree with a lot of her con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17964757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book will make you remember that the Middle Ages was a very different time and place.  It's full of things that make you squirm - the common conceptualization of Jesus as food to religious women, and depictions of them nursing on his wounds, etc.  But it's REALLY interesting, and was a complete...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/341100">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 27 11:07:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Comps reading!]]></body>
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    <review id="39166689">
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    <body><![CDATA[Another incredible book from Caroline Walker Bynum.]]></body>
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    <review id="35829905">
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Compared to the range of meanings in medieval poetry and piety, our use of body and food as symbols is narrow and negative…we may, more than we realize, need positive symbols for generativity and suffering.  If [medieval women's] images and values cannot become our answers, they can nonethel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35829905">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12692317">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was perhaps the most difficult book I have ever read.  By the time I was done I felt I had covered an enormous amount of material and even remembered a bit of it, but I was also overloaded.  I recommend it for those already familiar with or interested in religious studies.  NOT a casual read.]]></body>
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    <review id="44594053">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is awesome.  It is very much a school textbook, but it doesn't read like one.  Bynum explains how women used food as a way to exert power and control, since they had very little in other realms.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="9183578">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Any medievalist]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was fascinating on so many levels: on a historical level, on a feminist level, and on a theological level. A must read if you're into the history of women in the middle ages or the history of eucharistic devotions.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An absolute brick of a book. I could have clubbed a man to death with my copy. Interesting, yes, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is not actually a scholar of medieval women.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The parts I read were excellent and included two of my favorite subjects: historical women and food.  Hopefully someday I will be able to read the rest of this one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I find this thesis preposterous (Medieval nuns were all anorexics, really??), but I did manage to learn quite a bit from the book when it stuck to facts.]]></body>
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    <review id="25112909">
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    <body><![CDATA[I was assigned this in grad school and it was the first book that I really understood as an historian.  It is a fascinating topic and study.]]></body>
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    <review id="383094">
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely informative. Very helpful in understanding the writings of the mystics. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gross, this is the scab eating book!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read for HISTAM 340: Medieval Women]]></body>
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