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Andrew Jotischky

A Hermit's Cookbook

Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages

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How did medieval hermits survive on their self-denying diet? What did they eat, and how did unethical monks get around the rules? The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist, on locusts and wild honey. Was it really possible to sustain life on so little food? The history of monasticism is defined by the fierce and passionate abandonment of the ordinary comforts of life, the most striking being food and drink. A Hermit's Cookbook opens with stories and pen portraits of the Desert Fathers of early Christianity and their followers who were ascetic solitaries… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-4411-5991-5
  • EAN: 9781441159915
  • Produktnummer: 13840075
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 1'067 KB
  • Abbildungen: 6 illus

Über den Autor


Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Lancaster University, UK. He has published widely on aspects of medieval religious history; his principal publications include Crusading and the Crusader States (2004), and The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Bible Lands, with Caroline Hull (2009).

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