Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (EPDF) von Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa

An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.

Introduction - Naoe Kutika Yoshikawa
Mary the Physician: Women, Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages - Diane Watt
Chaucer's Physicians: Raising Questions of Authority - Roberta Magnani
Heavenly Vision and Psychosomatic Healing: Medical Discourse in Mechtild of Hackeborn'sthe Booke of Gostlye Grace - Naoe Kutika Yoshikawa
Bathing in Blood: The Medicinal Cures of Anchoritic Devotion - Liz Herbert McAvoy
"Maybe I'm Crazy?" Diagnosis and Contextualisation of Medieval Female Mystics - Juliette Vuille
Purgatory and Spiritual Healing in John Audelay's Poems - Takami Matsuda
Reginald Pecock's Reading Heart and the Health of Body and Soul - Louise M Bishop
Disabled Children: Birth Defects, Causality and Guilt - Irina Metzler
Marking the Face, Curing the Soul? Reading the Disfigurement of Women in the Later Middle Ages - Patricia Skinner
Did Drunkenness Dim the Sight? Medieval Understandings and Responses to Blindness in Medical and Religious Discourse - Joy Hawkins
Between Palliative Care and Curing the Soul: Medical and Religious Responses to Leprosy in France and England, c.1100-c.1500 - Elma Brenner
Afterword - Denis Renevey
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