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Rose/House by Arkady Martine
“I’m a piece of architecture, Detective. How should I know how humans are like to die?”
All of Basit Deniau’s …
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mouse quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women …
...Margery Kempe was so intensely attracted to Christ's maleness that she wept whenever she saw a male baby; in her visions she cuddled with Christ in bed and was bold enough to caress his toes.
— Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 246)
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mouse quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women …
Wives as well as daughters used fasting, charity, and ecstacy as a means to escape the role of food preparer or nurturer. Dorothy of Montau, like Margery Kempe, made elementary mistakes in cookery (such as failing to scale the fish before frying them) or forgot entirely to cook and shop while she was in mystic trances.
— Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 221)
mouse quoted Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics)
In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women …
The Decretum of Buchard of Worms, compiled between 1008 and 1012, lists the spells and incantations resorted to by women; most of them involve manipulating food -- for example, increasing or decreasing the sexual ardor of a husband by adding to his food such things as menstrual blood, semen, or dough kneaded with a woman's buttocks.
— Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Caroline Walker Bynum (The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics) (Page 190)
The logistics of kneading dough with ones buttocks raises some questions for me.
mouse started reading Rose/House by Arkady Martine
Rose/House by Arkady Martine
“I’m a piece of architecture, Detective. How should I know how humans are like to die?”
All of Basit Deniau’s …
mouse reviewed Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist …
Hotel du Lac
Beautifully written but confined (if not uncritically) within in a Cathy comic's grueling tedium of 1980s bourgeoisie gender norms. I think the ending made it work, however
mouse finished reading Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. …
mouse wants to read Food Provisions for Ancient Rome by Paul James
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 …
mouse started reading Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. …
mouse finished reading The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison (The Cemetries of Amalo, #3)
The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison (The Cemetries of Amalo, #3)
Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of Witness for the Dead is …
mouse started reading The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison (The Cemetries of Amalo, #3)
The Tomb of Dragons by Katherine Addison (The Cemetries of Amalo, #3)
Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of Witness for the Dead is …
mouse finished reading Frozen Desserts by Francisco Migoya
Frozen Desserts by Francisco Migoya
It is essential for any serious pastry chef to have a comprehensive knowledge of frozen dessert production, and this book …
mouse started reading White Holes by Carlo Rovelli
mouse finished reading The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the …