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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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca (New York)
Cornell University Press
2021
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| Summary: | "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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (330 p.) |
| ISBN: | book.83168 9781501753541 9781501758324 |
| Access: | Open Access |