Affective Medicine: : Later Medieval Healing Communities and the Feminization of Health Care Practices in the Thirteenth-Century Low Countries

This essay uses saints' lives and miracle stories to demonstrate the various ways that religiously affiliated women managed for a socially marginalized population the daily experience of health and illness. In this essay I explore how people came to believe in a saint's ability to heal, ho...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures. - Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. - 40(2014), 2, Seite 113-143
1. Verfasser: Ritchey, Sara (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2014
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures
Schlagworte:miracles verbal remedies healing saints Liège Biological sciences Behavioral sciences Health sciences Religion Economics mehr... Social sciences Law