A Hermit's Cookbook: Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages by Andrew Jotischky

A Hermit's Cookbook: Monks, Food and Fasting in the Middle Ages

Andrew Jotischky

209 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist, on locusts and wild honey. Was it really possible to sustain life on so little food? The history of monasticism i...

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