LEADER 03548nam 22005055 450 001 9910552762103321 005 20230719145645.0 010 $a1-5017-5355-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501753558 035 $a(CKB)4100000011777410 035 $a(DE-B1597)551301 035 $a(OCoLC)1243310792 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501753558 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011777410 100 $a20210421h20212021 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aActs of Care $eRecovering Women in Late Medieval Health /$fSara Ritchey 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (330 p.) $c11 b&w halftones, 1 map 311 $a1-5017-5353-3 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Abbreviations --$tAcknowledgments --$tMap --$tIntroduction: To Heed the Trace --$tPart I. Therapeutic Narratives --$t1. Translating Care: The Circulation of Healing Stories --$t2. Bedside Comforts: The Social Organization of Care --$tPart II. Therapeutic Knowledge --$t3. Empirical Bodies: Competing Theories of Therapeutic Authority --$tPart III. Therapeutic Practice --$t4. Rhythmic Medicine: The Psalter as a Therapeutic Technology in Beguine Communities --$t5. Salutary Words: Saints' Lives as Efficacious Texts in Cistercian Women's Abbeys --$tAfterword --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aMedical care$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aMedical care$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aWomen healers, Medieval$zBenelux countries 606 $aHISTORY / Medieval$2bisacsh 610 $a, psalters, medieval medicine, Low Countries, hagiography, miracles. 610 $aBeguines, Cistercians, medical charms. 615 0$aMedical care$xHistory 615 0$aMedical care$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aWomen healers, Medieval 615 7$aHISTORY / Medieval. 676 $a610.9/02 700 $aRitchey$b Sara$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01146099 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910552762103321 996 $aActs of Care$92686728 997 $aUNINA