1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910552762103321

Autore

Ritchey Sara

Titolo

Acts of Care : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health / / Sara Ritchey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-5017-5355-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.) : 11 b&w halftones, 1 map

Disciplina

610.9/02

Soggetti

Medical care - History - To 1500

Medical care - Religious aspects - Christianity

Women healers, Medieval - Benelux countries

HISTORY / Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Map -- 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

In Acts of Care, Sara Ritchey recovers women's health care work by identifying previously overlooked tools of care: healing prayers, birthing indulgences, medical blessings, liturgical images, and penitential practices. Ritchey demonstrates that women in premodern Europe were both deeply engaged with and highly knowledgeable about health, the body, and therapeutic practices, but their critical role in medieval health care has been obscured because scholars have erroneously regarded the evidence of their activities as religious rather than medical.The sources for identifying the scope of medieval women's health knowledge and healthcare practice, Ritchey argues, are



not found in academic medical treatises. Rather, she follows fragile traces detectable in liturgy, miracles, poetry, hagiographic narratives, meditations, sacred objects, and the daily behaviors that constituted the world as well as in testaments and land transactions from hospitals and leprosaria established and staffed by beguines and Cistercian nuns.Through its surprising use of alternate sources, Acts of Care reconstructs the vital caregiving practices of religious women in the southern Low Countries, reconnecting women's therapeutic authority into the everyday world of late medieval healthcare.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910715270403321

Autore

Blee J. W. H.

Titolo

Determination of evaporation and seepage losses, upper Lake Mary near Flagstaff, Arizona / / by J.W.H. Blee ; prepared in cooperation with the City of Flagstaff, Arizona

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, Arizona : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 1988

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 39 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Water-resources investigations report ; ; 87-4250

Soggetti

Reservoirs - Evaporation control - Arizona - Mary, Lake (Coconino County)

Seepage - Arizona - Mary, Lake (Coconino County)

Reservoirs - Evaporation control

Seepage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"May 1988."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-38).