Acts of care : recovering women in late Medieval health /

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"Brings together the histories of European medicine, gender, and Christianity to re-embed women's participation in medieval healthcare. Using devotional manuscripts, hagiographical texts, liturgy, poetry, and medical treatises, it reveals the healthcare knowledge and caregiving practices o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ritchey, Sara Margaret (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Temas:
To 1500
Women healers, Medieval > Benelux countries.
Medical care > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Medical care > History > To 1500.
Medicine.
Medieval history.
Feminism & feminist theory.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Medical care
Medical care > Religious aspects > Christianity
Women healers, Medieval
Benelux countries
, psalters, medieval medicine, Low Countries, hagiography, miracles.
Beguines, Cistercians, medical charms.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Translating care: the circulation of healing stories
  • Bedside comforts: the social organization of care
  • Empirical bodies: competing theories of therapeutic authority
  • Rhythmic medicine: the psalter as a therapeutic technology in Beguine communities
  • Salutary words: saints' lives as efficacious texts in Cistercian women's abbeys.

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