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Medicine, religion and gender in Medieval culture /
Current preoccupations with the body have led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion, literature and the history of medicine, and, more specifically, how they converge within a given culture. This collection of essays explores the ways in which aspects of medieval culture were p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
D.S. Brewer,
2015.
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| Colección: | Gender in the Middle Ages ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Mary the Physician
- Mary the Physician: Women, Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages / Diane Watt
- Chaucer's Physicians: Raising Questions of Authority / Roberta Magnani
- PART II: Female Mysticism and Metaphors of Illness
- Heavenly Vision and Psychosomatic Healing: Medical Discourse in Mechtild of Hackeborn's the Booke of Gostlye Grace / Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
- Bathing in Blood: the Medicinal Cures of Anchoritic Devotion / Liz Herbert McAvoy
- 'Maybe I'M Crazy?' Diagnosis and Contextualisation of Medieval Female Mystics / Juliette Vuille
- Part III: Fifteenth-Century Poetry and Theological Pro
- Purgatory and Spiritual Healing in John Audelay's Poems / Takami Matsuda
- Reginald Pecock's Reading Heart and the Health of Body and Soul / Louise M. Bishop
- Part IV: Disfigurement and Disability
- Disabled Children: Birth Defects, Causality and Guilt / Irina Metzler
- Marking the Face, Curing the Soul? Reading the Disfigurement of Women in the Later Middle Ages / Patricia Skinner
- Did Drunkenness Dim the Sight? Medieval Understandings and Responses to Blindness in Medical and Religious Discourse / Joy Hawkins
- Between Palliative Care and Curing the Soul: Medical and Religious Responses to Leprosy in France and England, C. 1100-C. 1500 / Elma Brenner
- Afterword / Denis Renevey.