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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Autor principal: Ritchey, Sara Margaret (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Col·lecció:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumari:"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"--
Descripció física:1 online resource (330 pages): illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ;
ISBN:9781501753541
Accés:Open Access