Acts of care : recovering women in late Medieval health /
Ritchey, Sara Margaret,
Acts of care : recovering women in late Medieval health / Sara Ritchey. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"--
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
9781501753541 9781501753558
2020022418
Medical care--History--To 1500.
Medical care--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Women healers, Medieval--Benelux countries.
R141
610.9/02
Acts of care : recovering women in late Medieval health / Sara Ritchey. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"--
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
9781501753541 9781501753558
2020022418
Medical care--History--To 1500.
Medical care--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Women healers, Medieval--Benelux countries.
R141
610.9/02