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.
...MoreReview Alexandra Barratt (2016) Review of "Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 547-549).
Chapter Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa (2015) Heavenly Vision and Psychosomatic Healing: Medical Discourse in Mechtild of Hackeborn's The Booke of Gostlye Grace. In: Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (pp. 67-84).
Chapter Roberta Magnani (2015) Chaucer's Physicians: Raising Questions of Authority. In: Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (pp. 45-64).
Chapter Irina Metzler (2015) Disabled Children: Birth Defects, Causality and Guilt. In: Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (pp. 161-180).
Chapter Patricia Skinner (2015) Marking the Face, Curing the Soul? Reading the Disfigurement of Women in the Later Middle Ages. In: Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (pp. 181-202).
Chapter Juliette Vuille (2015) 'Maybe I'm Crazy?' Diagnosis and Contextualisation of Medieval Female Mystics. In: Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (pp. 103-120).
Chapter Takami Matsuda (2015) Purgatory and Spiritual Healing in John Audelay's Poems. In: Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (pp. 123-138).
Chapter Elma Brenner (2015) Between Palliative Care and Curing the Soul: Medical and Religious Responses to Leprosy in France and England, c. 1100-c. 1500. In: Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (pp. 221-234).
Chapter Diane Watt (2015) Mary the Physician: Women, Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages. In: Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (pp. 27-44).
Chapter Liz Herbert McAvoy (2015) Bathing in Blood: the Medicinal Cures of Anchoritic Devotion. In: Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (pp. 85-102).
Chapter Louise M. Bishop (2015) Reginald Pecock's Reading Heart and the Health of Body and Soul. In: Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (pp. 139-158).
Chapter Joy Hawkins (2015) Did Drunkenness Dim the Sight? Medieval Understandings and Responses to Blindness in Medical and Religious Discourse. In: Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture (pp. 203-220).
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