Acts of Care : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524666303321
• Autore: Ritchey Sara
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca (New York), : Cornell University Press, 2021; Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021; ©2021
• ISBN: 1-5017-5832-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 pages)
• Soggetti: Medicine; Medieval history; Feminism & feminist theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: ACTS OF CARE -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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" Provided by publisher.