In regard to the second food question, and to Jim's ideas on monastic
eating practices, I would also add that records of episcopal visitation
provide information both on how and what religious ate. In the
later-medieval visitation records from Lincoln, with which I've done quite
a bit of work, there frequent mentions of use (or lack thereof) of
the refectory and overuse of the misericord; interestingly, episcopal
attitudes toward these practices, and toward separate, non-communal
catering arrangements in households or _familia_, seem different for male
and female communities.
Best regards,
Nancy Warren
Department of English
University of Michigan
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