From Feasting To Fasting
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Fasting Feasting
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Author : Anita Desai
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-10-31
Fasting Feasting written by Anita Desai and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-31 with Fiction categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1999 BOOKER PRIZE Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, and brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir who is studying in America. Across the world in Massachusetts, life with the Patton family is bewildering for Arun in the alien culture of freedom, freezers and paradoxically self-denying self-indulgence.
From Feasting To Fasting
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Author : Veronika Grimm
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11
From Feasting To Fasting written by Veronika Grimm and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11 with History categories.
Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts dealing with food, eating and fasting. It will be of interest to all students of Early Christianity and to those searching for historical roots of modern attitudes.
Feasting Fasting In Opera
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Author : Pierpaolo Polzonetti
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-11-11
Feasting Fasting In Opera written by Pierpaolo Polzonetti and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-11 with Music categories.
Feasting and Fasting in Operashows that the consumption of food and drink is an essential component of opera, both on and off stage. In this book, opera scholar Pierpaolo Polzonetti explores how convivial culture shaped the birth of opera and opera-going rituals until the mid-nineteenth century, when eating and drinking at the opera house were still common. Through analyses of convivial scenes in operas, the book also shows how the consumption of food and drink, and sharing or the refusal to do so, define characters’ identity and relationships. Feasting and Fasting in Opera moves chronologically from around 1480 to the middle of the nineteenth century, when Wagner’s operatic reforms banished refreshments during the performance and mandated a darkened auditorium and absorbed listening. The book focuses on questions of comedy, pleasure, embodiment, and indulgence—looking at fasting, poisoning, food disorders, body types, diet, and social, ethnic, and gender identities—in both tragic and comic operas from Monteverdi to Puccini. Polzonetti also sheds new light on the diet Maria Callas underwent in preparation for her famous performance as Violetta, the consumptive heroine of Verdi’s La traviata. Neither food lovers nor opera scholars will want to miss Polzonetti’s page-turning and imaginative book.
Holy Feast And Holy Fast
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Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1987
Holy Feast And Holy Fast written by Caroline Walker Bynum and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
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 ha.
From Feasting To Fasting
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Author : Veronika Grimm
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11-01
From Feasting To Fasting written by Veronika Grimm and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-01 with History categories.
In this highly original study, Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts dealing with food, eating and fasting. Modern day eating disorders often equate food with sin and see fasting as an attempt to regain purity, an attitude which can also be observed in early Christian beliefs in the mortification of the flesh. Describing first the historical and social context of Judaism and the Graeco-Roman world, the author then proceeds to analyse Christian attitudes towards food. Descriptions of food found in the Pauline Epistles, the Acts of the Apostles, Tertullian or Augustine are compared to contemporary Jewish or Graeco-Roman pagan texts. Thus a particular Christian mode of fasting is elaborated which influences us to the present day; ascetic fasting for the suppression of the sexual urges of the body. Winner of the 1995 Routledge Ancient History Prize
Feast Fast Or Famine
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Author : Wendy Mayer
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Feast Fast Or Famine written by Wendy Mayer and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with History categories.
In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the study of food and drink in the ancient, Mediaeval and Byzantine worlds and of their supply and consumption. This volume presents selected papers from the biennial conference of the Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, which was held at the University of Adelaide, 11-12 July 2003. The theme was food and drink in Byzantium. Published selectively in the present volume, the papers of the conference are augmented by contributions from international scholars. While some papers address the use of food directly (children’s diet, fasting) or tangentially (in love spells), or discuss philosophical approaches towards food (vegetarianism), other papers in this volume examine the topic from another perspective: the role and perception of food and drink – and their consumption – in society. Yet others examine issues of supply (military logistics) and the role it played in shaping Byzantium. This volume will appeal to readers interested in the history of food, in late antique and Byzantine society, in Byzantine rhetoric, in magic in late antiquity and in the Jews in early Byzantium.
From Feasting To Fasting The Evolution Of A Sin
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
From Feasting To Fasting The Evolution Of A Sin written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
In this highly original study, Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts dealing with food, eating and fasting. Modern day eating disorders often equate food with sin and see fasting as an attempt to regain purity, an attitude which can also be observed in early Christian beliefs in the mortification of the flesh. Describing first the historical and social context of Judaism and the Graeco-Roman world, the author then proceeds to analyse Christian attitudes towards food. Descriptions of food found in the Pauline Epistles, the Acts of the Apostles, Tertullian or Augustine are compared to contemporary Jewish or Graeco-Roman pagan texts. Thus a particular Christian mode of fasting is elaborated which influences us to the present day; ascetic fasting for the suppression of the sexual urges of the body.
Finding Balance
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Author : Gigi M. Berardi
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
Finding Balance written by Gigi M. Berardi and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Finding Balance' offers an overview of issues faced by all performing dancers: injury & treatment; technique & training; fitness; nutrition & diet; & career management. The text includes profiles of well known dancers & how they have coped with these issues.
From Feasting To Fasting The Evolution Of A Sin
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Author : Veronika E. Grimm
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1996
From Feasting To Fasting The Evolution Of A Sin written by Veronika E. Grimm and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Religion categories.
This study discusses texts, written between the first and fifth centuries AD, that address Christian conduct with respect to food, eating and fasting, by setting them into the historical and social contexts in which their authors lived. From Feasting to Fasting, the Evolution of a Sin traces the early history of conflicting attitudes to food. It will be of interest not only to historians of late antiquity, but also to those searching for historical roots of modern attitudes.
Our Hearts Still Sing
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Author : Peter Millar
language : en
Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
Release Date : 2004-08-23
Our Hearts Still Sing written by Peter Millar and has been published by Wild Goose Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-23 with Fiction categories.
A collection of daily readings designed to help us reconnect with the energies of God and to centre our lives upon things that ultimately matter.