Hardcover, 444 pages
English language
Published May 20, 1987 by University of California Press.
Holy Feast and Holy Fast
The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
Subjects
- 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