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Acts of care : recovering women in late Medieval health by Sara Ritchey [Ritchey, Sara] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In Acts of Care, Sara Ritchey recovers women's healthcare 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 engaged with and highly knowledgeable about health, the body, and therapeutic practices, but their critical role in medieval healthcare has been obscured because scholars have erroneously regarded the evidence of
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sara Ritchey [Ritchey, Sara]
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501753541
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Medical, History, Medicine
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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