Acts of Care Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health

In 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 engage...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ritchey, Sara, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2021]
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649798706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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