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

224 pages first pub 2011 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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How did medieval hermits survive on their self-denying diet? What did they eat, and how did unethical monks get around the rules? The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, J...

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