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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| Idioma: | anglès |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2021.
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| Col·lecció: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Taula de continguts:
- Translating care: the circulation of healing stories
- Bedside comforts: the social organization of care
- Empirical bodies: competing theories of therapeutic authority
- Rhythmic medicine: the psalter as a therapeutic technology in Beguine communities
- Salutary words: saints' lives as efficacious texts in Cistercian women's abbeys.