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Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture

Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture

Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita
Renevey, Denis
Watt, Diane

Hardcover

Series: Gender in the Middle Ages, Book 11

Medical ReferenceLiterary CriticismGeneral Gender Studies

ISBN10: 184384401X
ISBN13: 9781843844013
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Jul 16 2015
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

Naoë 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, Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa.

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