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Food Provisions for Ancient Rome by Paul James
This book defines the processes used for delivering a range of food items to the city of Rome and its …
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But Catherine [of Siena] herself, in letter after letter, says we do not marry Christ with gold or silver but with the ring of Christ’s foreskin, given in the Circumcision and accompanied by pain and the shedding of blood.
— Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 174 - 175)
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"Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us."
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@samfirke yeah her folding system really was a moment of cultural progress imo
@julien clearing toxins?
I got this from the library out of curiosity -- it was such a thing ten years ago, that even though I never read it I felt like I knew everything in it by osmosis. I was reminded of it because I am approaching my first year anniversary of living in my new place and I thought it might be fun to follow this book as a bit. But ultimately it's seeped so thoroughly into the mainstream consciousness that commentating on it didn't seem that fun.
There is however one thing which no one told me: at one point she genuinely claims that completing her method will often cause people to have diarrhea.
After her death Agnes's body exuded sweet oil from hands and feet, and the oil effected many cures.
The theme of exuding appears in several Italian vitae, as it does in those from the Low Countries and Germany. Flemish women were ore apt to exude milk, Italian and German women oil or manna; but in vitae from all regions the theme is clear.
— Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 145)
New regional stereotypes just dropped