Acts of Care : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health / / Sara Ritchey |
Autore | Ritchey Sara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (330 p.) : 11 b&w halftones, 1 map |
Disciplina | 610.9/02 |
Soggetto topico |
Medical care - History - To 1500
Medical care - Religious aspects - Christianity Women healers, Medieval - Benelux countries HISTORY / Medieval |
Soggetto non controllato |
psalters, medieval medicine, Low Countries, hagiography, miracles
Beguines, Cistercians, medical charms |
ISBN | 1-5017-5355-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910552762103321 |
Ritchey Sara | ||
Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Acts of Care : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health |
Autore | Ritchey Sara |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca (New York), : Cornell University Press, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 pages) |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine
Medieval history Feminism & feminist theory |
Soggetto non controllato |
Women
Women's Health History of Women's Health Middle Ages Medieval |
ISBN | 1-5017-5832-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524666303321 |
Ritchey Sara | ||
Ithaca (New York), : Cornell University Press, 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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