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Author Ritchey, Sara Margaret, author.

Title Acts of care : recovering women in late Medieval health / Sara Ritchey
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021
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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
Beguines, Cistercians, medical charms
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2021)
Subject 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
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020022418
ISBN 9781501753558
150175355X
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