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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ritchey, Sara Margaret (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women healers, Medieval.
Medical care > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Medical care.
Medical care > History > To 1500.
Women healers, Medieval > Benelux countries.
Benelux countries.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (330 pages): illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ;
ISBN:9781501753541
Access:Open Access

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