Margery Kempe's spiritual medicine : suffering, transformation and the life-course /

The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kalas, Laura (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2020.
Temas:
Kempe, Margery, > approximately 1373- > Book of Margery Kempe.
Book of Margery Kempe (Kempe, Margery)
To 1500
Christian women > Religious life > England > History.
Mysticism > England > Early works to 1800.
Women > Health and hygiene > England > History > To 1500.
Medicine, Medieval > England.
Mysticisme > Angleterre > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Médecine médiévale > Angleterre.
Christian women > Religious life
Medicine, Medieval
Mysticism
Women > Health and hygiene
England
Early works
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1 Bleeding the Tears of Melancholia
  • 2 'Þe mukke' of Marriage and the Sexual Paradox
  • 3 Lost Blood of the Middle Age: Surrogacy and Fecundity
  • 4 Margery Medica: The Healing Value of Pain Surrogacy
  • 5 The Passion of Death Surrogacy
  • 6 Senescent Reproduction: Writing Anamnestic Pain
  • Afterword / Afterlife
  • Glossary of Medical Terms
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.

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