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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ritchey, Sara, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2021]
Materias:
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.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649798706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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