Jotischky, Andrew - A Hermit's Cookbook~Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages

Jotischky, Andrew - Hermit's Cookbook~Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages

This is not a cookbook, per se. Rather it is a food-oriented examination of early Chrisitian asceticism and the growth of monasticism. Jotischky discusses the diets of hermits and desert monks and works into the dietary practices--even indifference to food--of medieval monks. He shows that while "living in spirit" might be a guiding ideal, most members of religious communities were living in the material world and had ordinary needs. How they resolved this sacred-profane food fight is an interesting story.

190pp. + notes, bibliography, index


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