Medicine, religion, and gender in medieval culture / edited by Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita, editor.

Series:

Gender in the Middle Ages ; v. 11.

Gender in the Middle Ages ; volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Medieval.

Women in medicine--To 1500.

Women in medicine.

Medicine--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 293) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2015.

Summary:

An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART I MARY THE PHYSICIAN

1 Mary the Physician: Women, Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages

2 CHAUCER'S PHYSICIANS: RAISING QUESTIONS OF AUTHORITY

PART II FEMALE MYSTICISM AND METAPHORS OF ILLNESS

3 Heavenly Vision and Psychosomatic Healing: Medical Discourse in Mechtild of Hackeborn's The Booke of Gostlye Grace

4 BATHING IN BLOOD: THE MEDICINAL CURES OF ANCHORITIC DEVOTION

5 'MAYBE I'M CRAZY?' DIAGNOSIS AND CONTEXTUALISATION OF MEDIEVAL FEMALE MYSTICS

PART III FIFTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY AND THEOLOGICAL PROSE

6 Purgatory and Spiritual Healing in John Audelay's Poems

7 REGINALD PECOCK'S READING HEART AND THE HEALTH OF BODY AND SOUL

PART IV DISFIGUREMENT AND DISABILITY

8 Disabled Children: Birth Defects, Causality and Guilt

9 MARKING THE FACE, CURING THE SOUL? READING THE DISFIGUREMENT OF WOMEN IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES

10 DID DRUNKENNESS DIM THE SIGHT? MEDIEVAL UNDERSTANDINGS AND RESPONSES TO BLINDNESS IN MEDICAL AND RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE

11 BETWEEN PALLIATIVE CARE AND CURING THE SOUL: MEDICAL AND RELIGIOUS RESPONSES TO LEPROSY IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND, C. 1100-C. 1500

AFTERWORD

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

GENDER IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-78204-513-9