Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture Yoshikawa Renevey Watt Brenner

Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval CultureAuthor(s): Nao Kukita Yoshikawa, Denis Renevey, Diane Watt, Elma Brenner, Irina Metzler, Joy Hawkins, Juliette Vuille, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Louise M Bishop, Nao Kukita Yoshikawa\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9781843844013, 978-1843844013\nSynopsis\nAn exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.\n\nCurrent 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 converg.