Visualizing Household Health - Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Regime du corps (Hardcover)

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Regime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential, with nearly seventy surviving copies made over the next two hundred years and translations in at least four other languages. In Visualizing Household Health, art historian Jennifer Borland uses the Regime to show how gender and health care converged within the medieval household. Visualizing Household Health explores the nature of the households portrayed in the Regime and how their members interacted with professionalized medicine. Borland focuses on several illustrated versions of the manuscript that contain historiated initials depicting simple scenes related to health care, such as patients' consultations with physicians, procedures like bloodletting, and foods and beverages recommended for good health. Borland argues that these images provide important details about the nature of women's agency in the home-and offer highly compelling evidence that women enacted multiple types of health care. Additionally, she contends, the Regime opens a window onto the history of medieval women as owners, patrons, and readers of books. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book broadens notions of the medieval medical community and the role of women in medieval health care. It will be welcomed by scholars and students of women's history, art history, book history, and the history of medicine.

General

Imprint:	Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2022
Authors:	Jennifer Borland
Dimensions:	254 x 203 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-271-09059-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > General Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500 Promotions
LSN:	0-271-09059-6
Barcode:	9780271090597

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