Isn't Our Body the Only Thing We Have? Catherine of Siena, Medieval Fasting and (Post) Modern Anorexia Nervosa
Medieval fasting inspired fascination and fear, was used by its (mainly female) practitioners to authenticate mystical experience, and was increasingly controlled by the (male) clerical hierarchy of the Catholic Church of the time. Modern anorexia nervosa inspires a similar range of responses and, i...
| Published in: | Medieval mystical theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2015]
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Medieval mystical theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 6-22 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KCD Hagiography; saints KDB Roman Catholic Church NBE Anthropology |
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Grace Jantzen
B symbolic B Anorexia Nervosa B Luce Irigaray B spirit-centred personhood B Transcendence B Subjectivity B Gender B Society B Catherine of Siena B medieval fasting B Immanence |
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