1st Edition
Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
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This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250 to 1550. By foregrounding gender as an organizing principle of healthcare, the contributors challenge traditional binaries that ahistorically separate care from cure, medicine from religion, and domestic healing from fee-for-service medical exchanges. The essays... Read more
Introduction, Gendering Medieval Health and Healing: New Sources, New Perspectives, PART 1: Sources of Religious Healing, PART 2: Producing and Transmitting Medical Knowledge, PART 3: Infirmity and Care, PART 4: (In)fertility and Reproduction, Gender, Index
Biography
Sara Ritchey is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of >Holy Matter: Changing Perceptions of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity> (2014) and a forthcoming book on late medieval religious women’s therapeutic knowledge and healthcare practices (2021).
Sharon Strocchia is Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta. A social and cultural historian of Renaissance Italy, she has published widely on women, religion, and health-related topics. Her most recent book is >Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy> (2019).
