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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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Ritchey, Sara Margaret (Awdur)
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Cyfres:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Pynciau:
Mynediad Ar-lein:Full text available:
Tagiau: Ychwanegu Tag
Dim Tagiau, Byddwch y cyntaf i dagio'r cofnod hwn!
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.