Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250–1550

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Edited by Sharon Strocchia, Sara Ritchey

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: June 2021
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9789048544462
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048544462

Subjects:: Regional and World History: General Interest, History

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This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250–1550. 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 multi-linguistic exchange, the essays also reveal the multiple pathways for knowledge transfer in these centuries. The volume provides a synoptic view of how gender and cross-cultural exchange shaped medical theory and practice in later medieval and Renaissance societies.

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

List of Figures and Tables
pp 7-10

Acknowledgments
pp 11-12

Abbreviations
pp 13-14

Introduction: Gendering Medieval Health and Healing: New Sources, New Perspectives
pp 15-38

Part 1 - Sources of Religious Healing
pp 39-40

1 - Caring by the Hours: The Psalter as a Gendered Healthcare Technology
pp 41-66

2 - Female Saints as Agents of Female Healing: Gendered Practices and Patronage in the Cult of St. Cunigunde
pp 67-90

Part 2 - Producing and Transmitting Medical Knowledge
pp 91-92

3 - Blood, Milk, and Breastbleeding: The Humoral Economy of Women's Bodies in Medieval Medicine
pp 93-118

4 - Care of the Breast in the Late Middle Ages: The Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum
pp 119-138

5 - Household Medicine for a Renaissance Court: Caterina Sforza's Ricettario Reconsidered
pp 139-166

6 - Understanding/Controlling the Female Body in Ten Recipes: Print and the Dissemination of Medical Knowledge about Women in the Early Sixteenth Century
pp 167-188

Part 3 - Infirmity and Care
pp 189-190

7 - Ubi non est mulier, ingemiscit egens?: Gendered Perceptions of Care from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
pp 191-214

8 - Domestic Care in the Sixteenth Century: Expectations, Experiences, and Practices from a Gendered Perspective
pp 215-244

9 - Bathtubs as a Healing Approach in Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Medicine
pp 245-264

Part 4 - (In)fertility and Reproduction
pp 265-266

10 - Gender, Old Age, and the Infertile Body in Medieval Medicine
pp 267-290

11 - Gender Segregation and the Possibility of Arabo-Galenic Gynecological Practice in the Medieval Islamic World
pp 291-314

Afterword: Healing Women and Women Healers
pp 315-324

Contributors
pp 325-326

Index
pp 327-330

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