Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2020

Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550

Edited by: Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia

Volume 3 in the series Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048544462

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About this book

This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250 to 1550.

Author / Editor information

Sara Ritchey is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and is author of Holy Matter: Changing Perceptions of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity (2014).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).

Reviews

Co-winner of the 2020 Collaborative Project Award by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG)! The awards committee states that Gender, Health and Healing 1250-1550 is exciting in conception and breadth, using "an integrative, hybrid model of analysis" that ranges far beyond "the narrow terrain of academic, text-based medicine" using new types of evidence about women's "acts of caring and curing."

"The chapters raise a broader methodological question for historians, literary scholars, art historians, and scholars of religious studies: After excavating such stories, how can we alter our histories of women’s health and healing to make them the central subjects and characters that they clearly were? [...] In that vein, a number of the contributions in this volume contain transcriptions, translations, and reproductions of primary sources that will serve as important resources in our classrooms, where we must teach histories that are more inclusive and representative."
- Hannah Marcus, Harvard University, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Volume 52, Number 1, Summer 2021

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
List of Figures and Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Introduction Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Part 1. Sources of Religious Healing
1 Caring by the Hours. The Psalter as a Gendered Healthcare Technology Sara Ritchey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
2 Female Saints as Agents of Female Healing. Gendered Practices and Patronage in the Cult of St. Cunigunde Iliana Kandzha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Part 2. Producing and Transmitting Medical Knowledge
3 Blood, Milk, and Breastbleeding. The Humoral Economy of Women’s Bodies in Medieval Medicine Montserrat Cabré and Fernando Salmón Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
4 Care of the Breast in the Late Middle Ages. The Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum Belle S. Tuten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
5 Household Medicine for a Renaissance Court. Caterina Sforza’s Ricettario Reconsidered Sheila Barker and Sharon Strocchia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
6. Understanding/Controlling the Female Body in Ten Recipes. Print and the Dissemination of Medical Knowledge about Women in the Early Sixteenth Century Julia Gruman Martins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Part 3. Infirmity and Care
7 Ubi non est mulier, ingemiscit egens? Gendered Perceptions of Care from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries Eva-Maria Cersovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
8 Domestic Care in the Sixteenth Century. Expectations, Experiences, and Practices from a Gendered Perspective Cordula Nolte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
9 Bathtubs as a Healing Approach in Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Medicine Ayman Yasin Atat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Part 4. (In)fertility and Reproduction
10 Gender, Old Age, and the Infertile Body in Medieval Medicine Catherine Rider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
11 Gender Segregation and the Possibility of Arabo-Galenic Gynecological Practice in the Medieval Islamic World Sara Verskin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Afterword. Healing Women and Women Healers Naama Cohen-Hanegbi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 330
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 12
Keywords: Gender; Health; Medicine; Disability; Religion

eBook

Published: March 25, 2020
ISBN: 9789048544462