Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and have sometimes applied modern medical or psychological theories to them. It also forms a chapter in the history of women. The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. In the period between 12 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink, and miracles of bodily manipulation, including stigmata and inedia (living without eating). 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. Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations.
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