Women S Healthcare In The Medieval West
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Women S Healthcare In The Medieval West
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Author : Monica Helen Green
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2000
Women S Healthcare In The Medieval West written by Monica Helen Green and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Health & Fitness categories.
In this collection of seven major essays (one of them published here for the first time), Monica Green argues that a history of women's healthcare in medieval western Europe has not yet been written because it cannot yet be written - the vast majority of texts relating to women's healthcare have never been edited or studied. Using the insights of women's history and gender studies, Green shows how historians need to peel off the layers of unfounded assumption and stereotype that have characterized the little work that has been done on medieval women's healthcare. Seen in their original contexts, medieval gynecological texts raise questions of women's activity as healthcare providers and recipients, as well as questions of how the sexual division of labor, literacy, and professionalization functioned in the production and use of medical knowledge on the female body. An appendix lists all known medieval gynecological texts in Latin and the western European vernacular languages.
Making Women S Medicine Masculine
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Author : Monica H. Green
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-03-20
Making Women S Medicine Masculine written by Monica H. Green and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-20 with History categories.
Making Women's Medicine Masculine challenges the common belief that prior to the eighteenth century men were never involved in any aspect of women's healthcare in Europe. Using sources ranging from the writings of the famous twelfth-century female practitioner, Trota of Salerno, all the way to the great tomes of Renaissance male physicians, and covering both medicine and surgery, this study demonstrates that men slowly established more and more authority in diagnosing and prescribing treatments for women's gynaecological conditions (especially infertility) and even certain obstetrical conditions. Even if their 'hands-on' knowledge of women's bodies was limited by contemporary mores, men were able to establish their increasing authority in this and all branches of medicine due to their greater access to literacy and the knowledge contained in books, whether in Latin or the vernacular. As Monica Green shows, while works written in French, Dutch, English, and Italian were sometimes addressed to women, nevertheless even these were often re-appropriated by men, both by practitioners who treated women and by laymen interested to learn about the 'secrets' of generation. While early in the period women were considered to have authoritative knowledge on women's conditions (hence the widespread influence of the alleged authoress 'Trotula'), by the end of the period to be a woman was no longer an automatic qualification for either understanding or treating the conditions that most commonly afflicted the female sex - with implications of women's exclusion from production of knowledge on their own bodies extending to the present day.
Women In Medieval Western European Culture
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Author : Linda E. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Women In Medieval Western European Culture written by Linda E. Mitchell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with History categories.
This is the book that teachers of courses on women in the Middle Ages have been wanting to write-or see written-for years. Essays written by specialists in their respective fields cover a range of topics unmatched in depth and breadth by any other introductory text. Depictions of women in literature and art, women in the medieval urban landscape, an the issue of women's relation to definitions of deviance and otherness all receive particular attention. Geographical regions such as the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Near East are fully incorporated into the text, expanding the horizons of medieval studies. The collection is organized thematically and includes all the tools needed to contextualize women in medieval society and culture.
Gender Health And Healing 1250 1550
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Author : Sara Ritchey
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-21
Gender Health And Healing 1250 1550 written by Sara Ritchey and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-21 with History categories.
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.
Women And Gender In Medieval Europe
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Author : Margaret Schaus
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2006
Women And Gender In Medieval Europe written by Margaret Schaus and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
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Acts Of Care
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Author : Sara Ritchey
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-15
Acts Of Care written by Sara Ritchey and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-15 with History categories.
In Acts of Care, Sara Ritchey recovers women's healthcare work by identifying previously overlooked tools of care: healing prayers, birthing indulgences, medical blessings, liturgical images, and penitential practices. Ritchey demonstrates that women in premodern Europe were both deeply engaged with and highly knowledgeable about health, the body, and therapeutic practices, but their critical role in medieval healthcare has been obscured because scholars have erroneously regarded the evidence of their activities as religious rather than medical. The sources for identifying the scope of medieval women's health knowledge and healthcare practice, Ritchey argues, are not found in academic medical treatises. Rather, she follows fragile traces detectable in liturgy, miracles, poetry, hagiographic narratives, meditations, sacred objects, and the daily behaviors that constituted the world, as well as in testaments and land transactions from hospitals and leprosaria established and staffed by beguines and Cistercian nuns. Through its surprising use of alternate sources, Acts of Care reconstructs the vital caregiving practices of religious women in the southern Low Countries, reconnecting women's therapeutic authority into the everyday world of late medieval healthcare. Thanks to generous funding from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
Medieval Woman S Guide To Health
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Author : Beryl Rowland
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1981-01-01
Medieval Woman S Guide To Health written by Beryl Rowland and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-01-01 with Anglais (Langue) - 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) - Textes categories.
"This early fifteenth-century treatise on obstetrics and gynecology is a landmark both in the history of medicine and the history of women."-inside front cover.
Medieval Woman S Guide To Health
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Author : Beryl Rowland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Medieval Woman S Guide To Health written by Beryl Rowland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with English language categories.
A History Of Women In The West Silences Of The Middle Ages
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Author : Georges Duby
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 1992
A History Of Women In The West Silences Of The Middle Ages written by Georges Duby and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Discusses the legal, social, and religious position of women in the Greco-Roman world, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and modern era.
A Cultural History Of Women In The Middle Ages
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Author : Kim M. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-04-02
A Cultural History Of Women In The Middle Ages written by Kim M. Phillips and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-02 with History categories.
The medieval era has been described as 'the Age of Chivalry' and 'the Age of Faith' but also as 'the Dark Ages'. Medieval women have often been viewed as subject to a punishing misogyny which limited their legal rights and economic activities, but some scholars have claimed they enjoyed a 'rough and ready equality' with men. The contrasting figures of Eve and the Virgin Mary loom over historians' interpretations of the period 1000-1500. Yet a wealth of recent historiography goes behind these conventional motifs, showing how medieval women's lives were shaped by status, age, life-stage, geography and religion as well as by gender. A Cultural History of Women in the Middle Ages presents essays on medieval women's life cycle, bodies and sexuality, religion and popular beliefs, medicine and disease, public and private realms, education and work, power, and artistic representation to illustrate the diversity of medieval women's lives and constructions of femininity.