Eat, Pray, Love: Gluttony, Devotion, and Lust in Medieval Society and Culture
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Mens et Mensa: Society for the Study of Food in the Middle Ages
Organizer Name
John August Bollweg
Organizer Affiliation
College of DuPage
Presider Name
Alberto Ferreiro
Presider Affiliation
Seattle Pacific Univ.
Paper Title 1
The Challenges of Food and Friendship in the Vita of Margaret of Cortona
Presenter 1 Name
Andrea Boffa
Presenter 1 Affiliation
York College, CUNY
Paper Title 2
Gluttons for Punishment: Penance in the Lives of Two Saints
Presenter 2 Name
Martha M. Daas
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Old Dominion Univ.
Paper Title 3
"Our Daily Bread": The Religious Significance of the Feasts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Presenter 3 Name
John D. Kloosterman
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Baylor Univ.
Paper Title 4
The New-Year Feast in the Alliterative Morte Arthure (176-203, 235-6): A Warning against Aristocratic Lust and Gluttony?
Presenter 4 Name
Noriko Matsui
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Japan Univ. of Health Sciences, Saitama-Ken
Start Date
14-5-2016 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1350
Description
Food, sex, and the religious life are expressions of basic human needs, but all are also open to extreme manifestations. Religious and social anxiety about and confrontation with behaviors concerning food, sex, gluttony, and lust provide a lens through which scholars can examine the relationship of theological, spiritual, and legal habits of mind with the natural world and lived experience. For this session, Mens et Mensa seeks papers exploring documentary, textual, or literary evidence of religious or social anxiety about and confrontation with these fraught categories of behavior. We welcome papers treating examples from any of the religious or cultural traditions of Europe or the Mediterranean basin during the years ca. 500 CE through ca. 1500 CE.
Eat, Pray, Love: Gluttony, Devotion, and Lust in Medieval Society and Culture
Schneider 1350
Food, sex, and the religious life are expressions of basic human needs, but all are also open to extreme manifestations. Religious and social anxiety about and confrontation with behaviors concerning food, sex, gluttony, and lust provide a lens through which scholars can examine the relationship of theological, spiritual, and legal habits of mind with the natural world and lived experience. For this session, Mens et Mensa seeks papers exploring documentary, textual, or literary evidence of religious or social anxiety about and confrontation with these fraught categories of behavior. We welcome papers treating examples from any of the religious or cultural traditions of Europe or the Mediterranean basin during the years ca. 500 CE through ca. 1500 CE.