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Food, feast & fast : the Christian era from ancient world to environmental crisis / P. Fintan Lyons.
Van Pelt Library BR115.N87 L96 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lyons, P. Fintan, O.S.B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- History.
- Food--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
- Food.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 407 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Food, feast and fast
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin, Ireland : Columba Press, 2020.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Food, feast and fast in the ancient world
- Fodder becomes food
- The beginnings of agriculture
- Early religion
- The Old Testament
- The introduction of fasting
- The first feast
- Fasting becomes embedded in the religion
- The Jewish feasts
- Clean and unclean animals
- Conclusion
- ch. Two New Testament insights on fasting
- Jesus' teaching
- Motivation
- The Apostolic Church
- Council of Jerusalem
- The question of the cup
- The centuries after the Apostolic Church
- ch. Three The Greco-Roman world
- The Corinthian community
- The house church
- The larger assembly
- Relations with the larger society
- The Roman world's religious environment
- San Clemente
- Food in the Roman world
- Trimalchio's banquet
- The vomitorium
- Emperor Nero
- Christians in the first and second century Roman world
- Initiation
- The celebration of the Eucharist
- The Eucharist as meal
- Tertullian on fasting
- ch. Four The toleration of Christianity and consolidation of its position
- Emperor Constantine and St Peter's Basilica
- The Liber Pontificalis
- Lifestyles and fasting rules
- New buildings and the liturgy
- The liturgy in the Eastern Empire
- Chrysostom on fasting
- The Roman lifestyle
- St Jerome
- Monastic asceticism. Simeon Stylites
- The Egyptian monks
- Skellig Michael
- ch. Five The demands of Christian living. From Augustine Benedict
- Augustine (354-430) and the ascetical life
- Augustine on food and fasting
- His sermons on fasting
- Rome in the early fifth century
- Pope Leo the Great (r440-461)
- The church after Leo
- King Theodoric (454-526)
- St Benedict (480-543)
- ch. Six The Carolingian era. Civilising a tribal world
- Charlemagne and the influence of monasticism
- Imperial lifestyle and celebration
- The Lenten fast
- Raising standards
- Monastic lifestyle
- Benedict of Aniane and asceticism
- Monks and priests
- Paschasius and Ratramnus
- Eucharist as food
- Emergence of `Real Presence' terminology
- ch. Seven The social effects of Eucharistic theology
- A new millennium
- The Real Presence
- The Social Miracle
- Anti-social movements
- From communion to contemplation
- The bread of the Eucharist
- The round white Host
- The celebratory wafer
- Communion `under one kind'
- The Elevation
- The Eucharistic fast
- A continuous fast for some, but not for others
- ch. Eight An urban culture and its way of celebrating
- Medieval social structures
- Developments in farming
- The growth of towns
- Urban lifestyle
- Population change, the Black Death
- Effects on religion
- Worship and society
- Buildings as aids to celebration
- Mystery plays and the faithful
- Festa delta Palombella
- ch. Nine The Protestant Reformation: a new epoch
- Festival in a changing religious culture
- Desiderius Erasmus: a proponent of change
- Satirical works
- Meat or fish?
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
- Christian Freedom
- A frugal but enjoyable life
- The pamphlet campaign
- The fasting rules
- The results of liberation
- Luther on the mass
- The festal nature of the Lutheran liturgy
- ch. Ten Christian freedom and enforcing virtue. The Swiss Reformation
- 1. Huldrych Zwingli
- Humanism's pervasive influence
- The Zurich reform programme
- Zwingli's social and liturgical theology
- The Lord's supper, a memorial meal
- A worthy but dull Christian polity
- 2. John Calvin The Genevan reform programme
- German and the Swiss cultural differences
- Austerity and the Christian life
- Communion by the power of the Spirit
- ch. Eleven Leo X and the Italian Rinascimento
- Italy's unique situation
- Popes Alexander VI and Julius II
- Pope LeoX
- The Sacro Possesso
- Medici ambitions
- Leo and the arts
- Leo and banqueting
- Leo and Luther
- Leo and the hunt
- Leo and religious observance
- ch. Twelve Tudor England and the effects of the Reformation
- English banqueting
- English monasticism
- Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Cranmer
- Liturgical reform
- Fasting law reform
- Sumptuary laws
- The Anglican Eucharist
- ch. Thirteen Food, Feast and Fast in a time of transition. Italy and France
- Reacting against the Renaissance: Pope Paul IV
- The Banquet or the Liturgical Feast: Pius V
- The Banquet as Statement
- Fasting as Counter-Statement: Innocent XI
- Grand couvert or souper intime
- The demise of fasting: a new role for food
- Revolutionary France
- ch. Fourteen Puritan belief and devotion
- The English Puritans
- New England
- The `Great Awakening'
- Methodism
- Love feasts
- The evolution of American Civil Religion
- ch. Fifteen The Orthodox World
- The Byzantine feast
- The Orthodox liturgy
- Animal sacrifices
- Comparison with the early Roman liturgy
- Orthodoxy and fasting
- ch. Sixteen Food and Feast
- The shared meal
- Hunger and appetite
- The Fork
- Wine
- Why humans drink
- Laughter and singing
- Babette's Feast
- ch. Seventeen Food and the ethics of feasting
- Animal welfare issues
- Environmental issues and human health
- Interconnectedness and theology
- A theology of eating
- ch. Eighteen Eucharistic Feast
- Sacrificial Meal
- Christ's presence in the celebration
- Ecumenical dimension
- Symbolism
- Transignification and Transfinalisation
- Transformation
- Transubstantiation
- Pastoral Concerns
- From Communal to Individual Offering
- ch. Nineteen Food, Feast and Fast
- Current Considerations
- Gluttony
- To love fasting
- Dieting by Intermittent Fasting
- Islam
- ch. Twenty General Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 178218371X
- 9781782183716
- OCLC:
- 1113277545
- Publisher Number:
- 99985513620
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