Acts of Care : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health /
"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 o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Full text available: |
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| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (330 pages): illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; |
| ISBN: | 9781501753541 |
| Access: | Open Access |