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Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity (Hardcover)
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Food, Virtue, and the Shaping of Early Christianity (Hardcover)
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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 and moral 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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