Acts of Care
Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health
Abstract
"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.
Keywords
Women; Women's Health; History of Women's Health; Middle Ages; MedievalISBN
9781501753541, 9781501758324Publisher
Cornell University PressPublisher website
www.cornellpress.cornell.eduPublication date and place
Ithaca (New York), 2021Classification
Medicine and Nursing
History and Archaeology
CE period up to c 1500
Feminism and feminist theory
Pages
330
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