Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6372-451-7
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Premodern Health, Disease, and Disability

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ritchey, Sara

Strocchia, Sharon

Weitere Mitwirkende

Yasin, Ayman

Barket, Sheila

Cabre, Montserrat

Cersovsky, Eva-Maria

Rachel Cohen Hanegbi, Naama

Kandzha, Iliana

Gruman, Julia

Nolte, Cordula

Rider, Catherine

Salmon, Fernando

Tuten, Belle

Sverskin, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte: Seuchen, Krankheiten
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Gendering Medieval Health and Healing: New Sources, New Perspectives
Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia

PART 1: Sources of Religious Healing
Caring by the Hours: The Psalter as a Gendered Healthcare Technology
Sara Ritchey

Female Saints as Agents of Female Healing: Gendered Practices and Patronage in the Cult of St. Cunigunde
Iliana Kandzha

PART 2: Producing and Transmitting Medical Knowledge
Blood, Milk and Breastbleeding: The Humoral Economy of Women's Bodies in Late Medieval Medicine
Montserrat Cabré and Fernando Salmón

Care of the Breast in the Late Middle Ages: The Tractatus de Passionibus Mamillarum
Belle S. Tuten

Household Medicine for a Renaissance Court: Caterina Sforza's Ricettario Reconsidered
Sheila Barker and Sharon Strocchia

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

PART 3: Infirmity and Care
Ubi non est mulier, ingemiscit egens? Gendered Perceptions of Care from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
Eva-Maria Cersovsky

Domestic Care in the Sixteenth Century: Expectations, Experiences, and Practices from a Gendered Perspective
Cordula Nolte

Bathtubs as a Healing Approach in Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Medicine
Ayman Yasin Atat

PART 4: (In)fertility and Reproduction
Gender, Old Age, and the Infertile Body in Medieval Medicine
Catherine Rider

Gender Segregation and the Possibility of Arabo-Galenic Gynecological Practice in the Medieval Islamic World
Sara Verskin

Afterword: Healing Women and Women Healers
Naama Cohen-Hanegbi
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ritchey, Sara
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).

Strocchia, Sharon
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).