Food Virtue and the Shaping of Early Christianity
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In this book Dana Robinson examines the role that food played in the Christianization of daily life in the fourth century CE. Early Christians used the food culture of the Hellenized Mediterranean world to create and debate compelling models of Christian virtue and to project Christian ideology onto common domestic practices. Combining theoretical approaches from cognitive linguistics and space/place theory Robinson shows how metaphors for piety such as health fruit and sacrifice relied on food-related domains of common knowledge (medicine agriculture votive ritual) which in turn generated sophisticated and accessible models of lay discipline andmoral formation. She also demonstrates that Christian places and landscapes of piety were socially constructed through meals and food production networks that extended far beyond the Eucharist. Food culture thus provided a network of metaphorical concepts and spatial practices that allowed the lay faithful to participate in important debates over Christian living and community formation.
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