Títol

Medicine, religion and gender in medieval culture

Autor

Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa.

Descripció

Cambridge : D.S. Brewer

Anglès

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

Current preoccupations with the body have led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion, literature and the history of medicine, and, more specifically, how they converge within a given culture. This collection of essays explores the ways in which aspects of medieval culture were predicated upon an interaction between medical and religious discourses, particularly those inflected by contemporary gendered ideologies. The essays interrogatethis convergence broadly in a number of different ways: textually, conceptually, historically, socially and culturally. They argue for an inextricable relationship between the physical and spiritual in accounts of health, illness and disability, and demonstrate how medical, religious and gender discourses were integrated in medieval culture.

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Format

Electrònic

Data

2015