Acts of Care Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health

In Acts of Care, Sara Ritchey recovers women's healthcare 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...

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Main Author: Ritchey, Sara (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2021
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