Ritchey, Sara Margaret, <br/><br/>
Acts of Care :   Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health /  
Sara Ritchey. 
 - 1 online resource (330 pages):   illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>Translating care: the circulation of healing stories -- Bedside comforts: the social organization of care -- Empirical bodies: competing theories of therapeutic authority -- Rhythmic medicine: the psalter as a therapeutic technology in Beguine communities -- Salutary words: saints' lives as efficacious texts in Cistercian women's abbeys. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> "Brings together the histories of European medicine, gender, and Christianity to re-embed women's participation in medieval healthcare. Using devotional manuscripts, hagiographical texts, liturgy, poetry, and medical treatises, it reveals the healthcare knowledge and caregiving practices of Cistercian nuns and beguines in the late medieval Lowlands"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781501753541 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women healers, Medieval.<br/>Medical care--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Medical care.<br/>Medical care--History--To 1500.<br/>Medical care--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Women healers, Medieval--Benelux countries.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Benelux countries.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.