Description |
1 online resource : maps, illustrations |
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 |
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"-- Provided by publisher |
Analysis |
, psalters, medieval medicine, Low Countries, hagiography, miracles |
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Beguines, Cistercians, medical charms |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2021) |
Subject |
Women healers, Medieval -- Benelux countries
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Medical care -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Medical care -- History -- To 1500
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Medicine.
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Medieval history.
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Feminism & feminist theory.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Medical care
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Medical care -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Women healers, Medieval
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Benelux countries
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2020022418 |
ISBN |
9781501753558 |
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150175355X |
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9781501753541 |
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1501753541 |
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1501758322 |
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1501753533 |
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9781501758324 |
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9781501753534 |
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