Medicine, religion, and gender in medieval culture
An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
D.S. Brewer
2015.
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| Colección: | Gender in the Middle Ages ;
v. 11. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009622410606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I MARY THE PHYSICIAN
- 1 Mary the Physician: Women, Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages
- 2 CHAUCER'S PHYSICIANS: RAISING QUESTIONS OF AUTHORITY
- PART II FEMALE MYSTICISM AND METAPHORS OF ILLNESS
- 3 Heavenly Vision and Psychosomatic Healing: Medical Discourse in Mechtild of Hackeborn's The Booke of Gostlye Grace
- 4 BATHING IN BLOOD: THE MEDICINAL CURES OF ANCHORITIC DEVOTION
- 5 'MAYBE I'M CRAZY?' DIAGNOSIS AND CONTEXTUALISATION OF MEDIEVAL FEMALE MYSTICS
- PART III FIFTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY AND THEOLOGICAL PROSE
- 6 Purgatory and Spiritual Healing in John Audelay's Poems
- 7 REGINALD PECOCK'S READING HEART AND THE HEALTH OF BODY AND SOUL
- PART IV DISFIGUREMENT AND DISABILITY
- 8 Disabled Children: Birth Defects, Causality and Guilt
- 9 MARKING THE FACE, CURING THE SOUL? READING THE DISFIGUREMENT OF WOMEN IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES
- 10 DID DRUNKENNESS DIM THE SIGHT? MEDIEVAL UNDERSTANDINGS AND RESPONSES TO BLINDNESS IN MEDICAL AND RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE
- 11 BETWEEN PALLIATIVE CARE AND CURING THE SOUL: MEDICAL AND RELIGIOUS RESPONSES TO LEPROSY IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND, C. 1100-C. 1500
- AFTERWORD
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- GENDER IN THE MIDDLE AGES
