| Description |
1 online resource : maps, illustrations |
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text file PDF rda |
| 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 |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2021). |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Women healers, Medieval -- Benelux countries.
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Medical care -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Medical care -- History -- To 1500.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01013753
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Medical care -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
(OCoLC)fst02008068
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Women healers, Medieval. (OCoLC)fst01738562
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Benelux countries. (OCoLC)fst01242373
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| Chronological Term |
To 1500
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| 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) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781501753558 doi |
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