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Fasting - history

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    "A wonderful little girl" : the true story of Sarah Jacob, the Welsh fasting girl / Siân Busby.

    | Siân Busby | Date: 2003
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    Nüchternes Kalkül - verzehrende Leidenschaft : Nahrungsabstinenz im 16. Jahrhundert / von Waltraud Pulz.

    | Pulz, Waltraud | Date: 2007
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    Anorexies religieuses, anorexie mentale : essai de psychanalyse sociohistorique : de Marie de l'Incarnation à Simone Weil / Jacques Maître.

    | Jacques Maître | Date: 2000
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    From feasting to fasting, the evolution of a sin : attitudes to food in late antiquity / Veronika E. Grimm.

    | Grimm, Veronika E., 1934- | Date: 1996
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    Hungerkünstler, Fastenwunder, Magersucht : eine Kulturgeschichte der Ess-Störungen / Walter Vandereycken, Ron van Deth, Rolf Meermann.

    | Walter Vandereycken | Date: 1990
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Anorexia Nervosa

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