{"product_id":"acts-of-care-sara-ritchey-9781501758324","title":"Acts of Care","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eActs of Care\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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 their activities as religious rather than medical.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sources for identifying the scope of medieval women's health knowledge and healthcare practice, Ritchey argues, are not found in academic medical treatises. Rather, she follows fragile traces detectable in liturgy, miracles, poetry, hagiographic narratives, meditations, sacred objects, and the daily behaviors that constituted the world, as well as in testaments and land transactions from hospitals and leprosaria established and staffed by beguines and Cistercian nuns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough its surprising use of alternate sources, Acts of Care reconstructs the vital caregiving practices of religious women in the southern Low Countries, reconnecting women's therapeutic authority into the everyday world of late medieval healthcare. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks to generous funding from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu\/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara Ritchey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501758322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501758324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d","brand":"Sara Ritchey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990908797183,"sku":"9781501758324","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5d73ddfa-a702-4f32-a1cf-cee759ef0a3a.jpg?v=1683307364","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/acts-of-care-sara-ritchey-9781501758324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}