Sara Ritchey

Acts of Care

Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781501758324
• ISBN-10: 1501758322
• Artikelnr.: 60695991

Autorenporträt

Sara Ritchey is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and author of Holy Matter.

Inhaltsangabe

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