Acts of care : recovering women in late Medieval health /

"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)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Subjects:	Women healers, Medieval > Benelux countries. Medical care > Religious aspects > Christianity. Medical care > History > To 1500. HISTORY > Medieval. Medical care Medical care > Religious aspects > Christianity Women healers, Medieval Benelux countries To 1500 , psalters, medieval medicine, Low Countries, hagiography, miracles. Beguines, Cistercians, medical charms. Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

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.