Acts of Care : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health

Acts of Care Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health

In Acts of Care, Sara Ritchey recovers women's health care work by identifying previously overlooked tools of care: healing prayers, birthing indulgences, medical blessings, liturgical images, and penitential practices. Ritchey demonstrates that women in premodern Europe were both deeply engage...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ritchey, Sara, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2021]
Subjects:
Medical care > History > To 1500.
Medical care > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Women healers, Medieval > Benelux countries.
HISTORY / Medieval.
, psalters, medieval medicine, Low Countries, hagiography, miracles.
Beguines, Cistercians, medical charms.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649798706719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Map
  • Introduction: To Heed the Trace
  • Part I. Therapeutic Narratives
  • 1. Translating Care: The Circulation of Healing Stories
  • 2. Bedside Comforts: The Social Organization of Care
  • Part II. Therapeutic Knowledge
  • 3. Empirical Bodies: Competing Theories of Therapeutic Authority
  • Part III. Therapeutic Practice
  • 4. Rhythmic Medicine: The Psalter as a Therapeutic Technology in Beguine Communities
  • 5. Salutary Words: Saints' Lives as Efficacious Texts in Cistercian Women's Abbeys
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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