Relationship between food and holiness

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Book by Caroline Walker Bynum's "Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women

If we accept Bynum's argument that female piety was expressed through food more than male piety, where does this take us? In other words, what are some possible implications for finding a gendered relationship between food and holiness? How does this help us as historians?

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