Mary the Physician: Women, Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages

Watt, D (2015) Mary the Physician: Women, Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages In: Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture. D S Brewer, Cambridge, pp. 27-44. ISBN 184384401X

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Abstract

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 interrogate this 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

Item Type:	Book Section
Divisions :	Surrey research (other units)
Authors :	Watt, D
Date :	1 July 2015
Depositing User :	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited :	28 Mar 2017 10:53
Last Modified :	23 Jan 2020 13:10
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/807273

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