TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ritchey,Sara Margaret
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Acts of Care : : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health / 
SN  - 9781501753541
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Ithaca [New York]
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Women healers, Medieval
KW  - fast
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Benelux countries
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Open Access
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83168/
ER  -