The Saint And The Fasting Girl

Author : Anna Richenda
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440132421

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The Saint and the Fasting Girl by Anna Richenda Pdf

Link to Author Video and Website: http://www.annarichenda.com Sister Georgia lives at the center of a bustling Yorkshire nunnery at the eve of the English Reformation. Yet she is no ordinary nun. Georgia and her sisters follow the ways of the legendary Saint Isela, recording her signs and miracles and preparing for her return. But the archbishop of London, Philip SeVerde, a man rising in Henry VIIIs royal court, cannot bear this wild nunnery of the north. Driven by greed and a lust for power, SeVerde demands that the nuns submit to his control and strict monastic rule. Georgia is persecuted and tortured, yet she refuses to back down. Drawing strength and visions from an ancient relic, Georgia must ensure that her mystical group of nuns survive the meddling of the corrupt archbishop. She must undergo an epic journey and endure, lifetime after lifetime, until the promise of Saint Isela can be fulfilled. It is the story of The Saint and the Fasting Girl.

Author : Walter Vandereycken,Ron Van Deth
Publisher : Athlone Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0485241005

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From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls by Walter Vandereycken,Ron Van Deth Pdf

Down the centuries self-starvation has taken many morbid guises. This story culminates in the 19th century labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which has since attracted a host of theories and explanations in the course of which a medical curiosity has been transformed into a modern disease.

Author : William Alexander Hammond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503338821

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Fasting girls by William Alexander Hammond Pdf

Author : Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780375724480

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Fasting Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Pdf

An acclaimed classic from the award-winning author of The Body Project presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century, providing compassion to victims and their families. Here is a tableau of female self-denial: medieval martyrs who used starvation to demonstrate religious devotion, "wonders of science" whose families capitalized on their ability to survive on flower petals and air, silent screen stars whose strict "slimming" regimens inspired a generation. Here, too, is a fascinating look at how the cultural ramifications of the Industrial Revolution produced a disorder that continues to render privileged young women helpless. Incisive, compassionate, illuminating, Fasting Girls offers real understanding to victims and their families, clinicians, and all women who are interested in the origins and future of this complex, modern and characteristically female disease.

Author : William Alexander Hammond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Anorexia in children
ISBN : HARVARD:HC36Z8

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Fasting Girls by William Alexander Hammond Pdf

Author : William A. Hammond
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752373226

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Fasting Girls by William A. Hammond Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Fasting Girls by William A. Hammond

Author : William A. Hammond
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752318883

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Fasting Girls by William A. Hammond Pdf

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Author : Rudolph M. Bell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226169743

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Holy Anorexia by Rudolph M. Bell Pdf

Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire? Rudolph M. Bell suggests that the answer is yes. "Everyone interested in anorexia nervosa . . . should skim this book or study it. It will make you realize how dependent upon culture the definition of disease is. I will never look at an anorexic patient in the same way again."—Howard Spiro, M.D., Gastroenterology "[This] book is a first-class social history and is well-documented both in its historical and scientific portions."—Vern L. Bullough, American Historical Review "A significant contribution to revisionist history, which re-examines events in light of feminist thought. . . . Bell is particularly skillful in describing behavior within its time and culture, which would be bizarre by today's norms, without reducing it to the pathological."—Mary Lassance Parthun, Toronto Globe and Mail "Bell is both enlightened and convincing. His book is impressively researched, easy to read, and utterly fascinating."—Sheila MacLeod, New Statesman

Author : Tine Van Osselaer,Andrea Graus,Leonardo Rossi,Kristof Smeyers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004439351

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The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950 by Tine Van Osselaer,Andrea Graus,Leonardo Rossi,Kristof Smeyers Pdf

In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the ‘stigmatic’: young women who attracted widespread interest thanks to the appearance of physical stigmata. To understand the popularity of these stigmatics we need to regard them as the ‘saints’ and religious ‘celebrities’ of their time. With their ‘miraculous’ bodies, they fit contemporary popular ideas (if not necessarily those of the Church) of what sanctity was. As knowledge about them spread via modern media and their fame became marketable, they developed into religious ‘celebrities’.

Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520908789

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Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum Pdf

In the period between 1200 and 1500 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). The occurrence of such phenomena sheds much light on the nature of medieval society and medieval religion. It also forms a chapter in the history of women. Previous scholars have occasionally noted the various phenomena in isolation from each other and have sometimes applied modern medical or psychological theories to them. Using materials based on saints' lives and the religious and mystical writings of medieval women and men, Caroline Walker Bynum uncovers the pattern lying behind these aspects of women's religiosity and behind the fascination men and women felt for such miracles and devotional practices. She argues that food lies at the heart of much of women's piety. Women renounced ordinary food through fasting in order to prepare for receiving extraordinary food in the eucharist. They also offered themselves as food in miracles of feeding and bodily manipulation. Providing both functionalist and phenomenological explanations, Bynum explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. She also 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. The author's interpretation of women's piety offers a new view of the nature of medieval asceticism and, drawing upon both anthropology and feminist theory, she illuminates the distinctive features of women's use of symbols. Rejecting presentist interpretations of women as exploited or masochistic, she shows the power and creativity of women's writing and women's lives.

Author : Alban Butler,Paul Burns
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0860122603

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Butler's Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler,Paul Burns Pdf

For more than two centuries, "Butler's" has been one of the best known, most widely consulted hagiographies. In its brief and authoritative entries, readers can find a wealth of knowledge on the lives and deeds of the saints, as well as their ecclesiastical and historical importance since canonization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555009164

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The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lesa Scholl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350256538

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Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature by Lesa Scholl Pdf

Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain. Scholarship on fasting is gendered. This book deliberately faces this gendering by looking at the way in which four Victorian women writers - Christina Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Elizabeth Gaskell and Josephine Butler - each engage with food restraint from ethical, social and theological perspectives. While many studies look at fasting as a form of spiritual discipline or punishment, or alternatively as anorexia nervosa, this book positions limiting food consumption as an ethical choice in response to the food insecurity of others. By examining their works in this way, this study repositions feminine religious practice and writing in relation to food consumption within broader contexts of ecocriticism, economics and social justice.

Author : Jennifer Odom
Publisher : WordCrafts Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Girl with a Black Soul by Jennifer Odom Pdf

He approached the sidewalk in front of the two-story house. The crickets had stopped singing. Not a dog barked. Nobody but nobody was out on the streets at this time of night. At this time of night, the street was his. Not a body stirred. Or bodies, he snickered. Nobody will figure this one out, or pin it on me. A quick check across each shoulder, then he slipped up the concrete steps, crossed over the wooden porch, and lifted the kit out of his pocket. The lock would only take a minute. Easy-peasy. The door cracked open, and he slipped inside. Now all he had to do was finish the job. He mounted the stairs one... step... at... a... time... He paused to admire his handsome black leather gloves. He clenched and unclenched his hands. His hands felt good. The leather made him strong. Practice, practice--it makes you perfect, he snickered. He hesitated in the upstairs hallway-two open doors and one closed. He chose the door on the right. One step inside. Silence. His foot sank into the rug. Another step. Another. He squinted at the sleeping face. People looked so different in the dark like this.His hands flexed, eager to do their job. This was the woman-not Miss Ruffled-shorts. But she'd be next.

Author : Patricia Lysaght
Publisher : Založba ZRC
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789616358545

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Food and Celebration: From Fasting to Feasting by Patricia Lysaght Pdf

Hrana in pijača imata ob praznikih v vseh družbenih skupinah pomembno vlogo. Kaj v različnih kulturah določa, kakšna je praznična prehranač Kakšen je odnos med praznično in vsakdanjo prehranoč Kako se praznične jedi in pijače spreminjajo v času in različnih družbenih okoljihč Kakšen je pomen posameznih prazničnih jedi in jedilnih obrokovč Na ta in podobna vprašanja skuša odgovoriti 39 prispevkov.