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Author Robinson, Dana, 1977- author.

Title Food, virtue, and the shaping of early Christianity / Dana Robinson
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : illustrations
Contents The medicine of moderation : John Chrysostom and the true fast -- From dinner theater to domestic church in late antique Antioch -- Shenoute's botanical virtues : fruit, labor, and ascetic production -- The places of God : festivals, food service, and Christian community -- Meals, mouths, and martyrs : Paulinus of Nola and sacrificial spaces
Summary "In this book, Dana Robinson examines the role that food played in the Christianization of daily life in the fourth century CE. Early Christians used the food culture of the Hellenized Mediterranean world to create and debate compelling models of Christian virtue, and to project Christian ideology onto common domestic practices. Combining theoretical approaches from cognitive linguistics and space/place theory, Robinson shows how metaphors for piety, such as health, fruit, and sacrifice, relied on food-related domains of common knowledge (medicine, agriculture, votive ritual), which in turn generated sophisticated and accessible models of lay discipline and moral formation. She also demonstrates that Christian places and landscapes of piety were socially constructed through meals and food production networks that extended far beyond the Eucharist. Food culture, thus, provided a network of metaphorical concepts and spatial practices that allowed the lay faithful to participate in important debates over Christian living and community formation"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Catholic University of America, 2016, titled Food and lay piety in late antiquity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Dana Robinson, Creighton University, Omaha. Dana earned her Ph.D. in Early Christian Studies at The Catholic University of America
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Subject John Chrysostom, Saint, -407.
Shenute, Saint, approximately 348-466.
Paulinus, of Nola, Saint, approximately 353-431
SUBJECT John Chrysostom, Saint, -407 fast
Paulinus, of Nola, Saint, approximately 353-431 fast
Shenute, Saint, approximately 348-466 fast
Subject Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Dinners and dining -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
Food -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
Piety -- History -- To 1500
Asceticism -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Asceticism -- Early church
Church history -- Primitive and early church
Dinners and dining -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Food -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Piety
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019056093
ISBN 9781108785693
1108785697
9781108858809
1108858805
Other Titles Food and lay piety in late antiquity