Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550

Sara Ritchey, Sharon Strocchia (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

330 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-18010-4 (ISBN)

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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 collected here illuminate previously hidden and undervalued forms of healthcare and varieties of body knowledge produced and transmitted outside the traditional settings of university, guild, and academy. They draw on non-traditional sources -- vernacular regimens, oral communications, religious and legal sources, images and objects -- to reveal additional locations for producing body knowledge in households, religious communities, hospices, and public markets. Emphasizing cross-confessional and multilinguistic exchange, the essays also reveal the multiple pathways for knowledge transfer in these centuries. Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550 provides a synoptic view of how gender and cross-cultural exchange shaped medical theory and practice in later medieval and Renaissance societies.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	610 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
ISBN-10	1-041-18010-1 / 1041180101
ISBN-13	978-1-041-18010-4 / 9781041180104
Zustand	Neuware