Vigilance and renunciation. Conflicts over fasting in early modern Russia and Poland-Lithuania (C06)

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This project examines fasting and the voluntary abstaining from food as a practice as well as an object of political, medical and religious debate in early modern Russia and Poland-Lithuania. It will analyze the everyday practice of eating or not eating as a tool in political and social negotiations of power. The project focuses on multi-religious and multi-ethnic regions and thus centers the question of how the practice of abstaining from food produces identity.