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"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" Provided by publisher.
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Keywords
- Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500
- Feminism & feminist theory
- History
- History of Women's Health
- History: earliest times to present day
- Humanities
- medicine
- medieval
- Medieval history
- Middle Ages
- Social issues & processes
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Women
- Women's Health
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DOI: 10.1353/book.83168Editions