Holy Anorexia: Epilo

by Rudolph M. Bell

Book Overview

Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire? Rudolph M.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226042049
• ISBN13: 9780226042046
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Holy Anorexia

This book is an excellent historic study of women possesed with piety, most of these women were nuns from the 14-15th century. They expressed a dedication to Christ through an aesthetic lifestyle that included starvation, self-inflicted torture, mystical hallucinations and extreme self-denial. The women who starved to death gained a martyr like status. A facinating book!