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Forbidden Fruit: Saint Augustine and the Psychology of Eating Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Joanna Leidenhag
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New Blackfriars , Volume 99 , Issue 1079 , January 2018 , pp. 47 - 65
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Copyright © 2016 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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