In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where material objects¿among them paintings, statues, relics, pieces of wood, earth, stones, and Eucharistic...

Explores the ways in which food practices enabled women to exert control within the family and to define their religious vocations. This title describes what women meant by seeing their own bodies and God's body as food and what men...

"Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe" von Caroline Walker Bynum untersucht die Rolle und Bedeutung von Andachtsobjekten im spätmittelalterlichen Europa. Bynum analysiert, wie diese Objekte – trotz ihrer...