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11. Eating in Silence in an English Benedictine Monastery
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Richard D. G. Irvine
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
- Historical Background to Food and Christianity 7
- 1. The Urban Influence. Shopping and Consumption at the Florentine Monastery of Santa Trinità in the Mid-Fourteenth Century 21
- 2. The Ideology of Fasting in the Reformation Era 41
- 3. “The Food Police”: Sumptuary Prohibitions on Food in the Reformation 59
- 4. Dirty Things: Bread, Maize, Women, and Christian Identity in Sixteenth-Century America 83
- 5. Enlightened Fasting: Religious Conviction, Scientific Inquiry, and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern France 105
- 6. The Sanctity of Bread: Missionaries and the Promotion of Wheat Growing Among the New Zealand Maori 125
- 7. Commensality and Love Feast: The Agape Meal in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Brethren in Christ Church 147
- 8. Metaphysics and Meatless Meals: Why Food Mattered When the Mind Was Everything 171
- 9. Fasting and Food Habits in the Eastern Orthodox Church 189
- 10. Divine Dieting: A Cultural Analysis of Christian Weight Loss Programs 205
- 11. Eating in Silence in an English Benedictine Monastery 221
- Bibliography 239
- Index 253
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
- Historical Background to Food and Christianity 7
- 1. The Urban Influence. Shopping and Consumption at the Florentine Monastery of Santa Trinità in the Mid-Fourteenth Century 21
- 2. The Ideology of Fasting in the Reformation Era 41
- 3. “The Food Police”: Sumptuary Prohibitions on Food in the Reformation 59
- 4. Dirty Things: Bread, Maize, Women, and Christian Identity in Sixteenth-Century America 83
- 5. Enlightened Fasting: Religious Conviction, Scientific Inquiry, and Medical Knowledge in Early Modern France 105
- 6. The Sanctity of Bread: Missionaries and the Promotion of Wheat Growing Among the New Zealand Maori 125
- 7. Commensality and Love Feast: The Agape Meal in the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Brethren in Christ Church 147
- 8. Metaphysics and Meatless Meals: Why Food Mattered When the Mind Was Everything 171
- 9. Fasting and Food Habits in the Eastern Orthodox Church 189
- 10. Divine Dieting: A Cultural Analysis of Christian Weight Loss Programs 205
- 11. Eating in Silence in an English Benedictine Monastery 221
- Bibliography 239
- Index 253
