| Description |
1 online resource : maps, illustrations |
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text file PDF |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Translating care: the circulation of healing stories -- Bedside comforts: the social organization of care -- Empirical bodies: competing theories of therapeutic authority -- Rhythmic medicine: the psalter as a therapeutic technology in Beguine communities -- Salutary words: saints' lives as efficacious texts in Cistercian women's abbeys. |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Women healers, Medieval -- Benelux countries.
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Women healers, Medieval. |
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Benelux countries. |
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Medical care -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Medical care -- History -- To 1500.
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Medical care -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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History. |
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Medical care. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Medieval. |
| Indexed Term |
, psalters, medieval medicine, Low Countries, hagiography, miracles. |
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Beguines, Cistercians, medical charms. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Medical care. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ritchey, Sara Margaret. Acts of care. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501753534 (DLC) 2020022417 (OCoLC)1151803775 |
| ISBN |
9781501753558 (electronic book) |
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150175355X (electronic book) |
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9781501753541 (electronic book) |
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1501753541 (electronic book) |
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9781501753534 (hardcover) |
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9781501758324 (paperback) |
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1501758322 |
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1501753533 |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781501753558 |
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