Acts of Care

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...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Ritchey, Sara
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Cornell University Press 2023
Subjects:	Beguines, Cistercians, medical charms,, psalters, medieval medicine, Low Countries, hagiography, miracles thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
Online Access:	ONIX_20230329_9781501753558_171
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