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
Descripción
Sumario:"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 of Cistercian nuns and beguines in the late medieval Lowlands"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource : maps, illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501753558
150175355X
9781501753541
1501753541
1501758322
1501753533
9781501758324
9781501753534

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