Acts of Care : : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health / / Sara Ritchey.

In Acts of Care, Sara Ritchey recovers women's health care 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 engage...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.) :; 11 b&w halftones, 1 map
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