Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture

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Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: MARY THE PHYSICIAN
	1 Mary the Physician: Women, Religion and Medicine in the
Middle Ages
	2 Chaucer’s Physicians: Raising Questions of Authority
PART II: FEMALE MYSTICISM AND METAPHORS OF ILLNESS
	3 Heavenly Vision and Psychosomatic Healing: Medical Discourse
in Mechtild of Hackeborn’s The Booke of Gostlye Grace
	4 Bathing in Blood: The Medicinal Cures of Anchoritic Devotion
	5 ‘Maybe I’m Crazy?’ Diagnosis and Contextualisation of Medieval
Female Mystics
PART III: FIFTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY AND THEOLOGICAL PROSE
	6 Purgatory and Spiritual Healing in John Audelay’s Poems
	7 Reginald Pecock’s Reading Heart and the Health of Body and Soul
PART IV: DISFIGUREMENT AND DISABILITY
	8 Disabled Children: Birth Defects, Causality and Guilt
	9 Marking the Face, Curing the Soul? Reading the Disfigurement of
Women in the Later Middle Ages
	10 Did Drunkenness Dim the Sight? Medieval Understandings and
Responses to Blindness in Medical and Religious Discourse
	11 Between Palliative Care and Curing the Soul: Medical and Religious
Responses to Leprosy in France and England, c. 1100–c. 1500
Afterword
Select Bibliography
Index