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Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (Hardcover)
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Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Gender in the Middle Ages
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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. Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa is Professor of English in the
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shizuoka University.
Contributors: Louise M. Bishop, Elma Brenner, Joy Hawkins, Roberta
Magnani, Takami Matsuda, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Irina Metzler, Denis
Renevey, Patricia Skinner, Juliette Vuille, Diane Watt, Naoe Kukita
Yoshikawa.
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