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Medieval Fasting and Anorexia Nervosa as Goal-Oriented Ascetic Practices (thesis)
This paper analyzes various theories of asceticism and the body and assesses those theories in the context of two behaviors typically considered to have ascetic components: medieval female fasting and modem anorexia nervosa ...