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Darrera modificació: 2022-07-12
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Borland, Jennifer, Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps, University Park (Pa), Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022, 240 pp., il·l.
- Resum
- In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Régime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential, with nearly seventy surviving copies made over the next two hundred years and translations in at least four other languages. In Visualizing Household Health, art historian Jennifer Borland uses the Régime to show how gender and health care converged within the medieval household. Visualizing Household Health explores the nature of the households portrayed in the Régime and how their members interacted with professionalized medicine. Borland focuses on several illustrated versions of the manuscript that contain historiated initials depicting simple scenes related to health care, such as patients' consultations with physicians, procedures like bloodletting, and foods and beverages recommended for good health. Borland argues that these images provide important details about the nature of women's agency in the home—and offer highly compelling evidence that women enacted multiple types of health care. Additionally, she contends, the Régime opens a window onto the history of medieval women as owners, patrons, and readers of books. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book broadens notions of the medieval medical community and the role of women in medieval health care. It will be welcomed by scholars and students of women's history, art history, book history, and the history of medicine.
Contents:
* Introduction
* 1. The Visual Language of the Régime du corps
* 2. The Illustrated Manuscripts and Their Audiences
* 3. The Medical Context for the Régime du corps
* 4. Household Management, Status, and the Care of the Body
* Conclusion
* Appendix 1: Summary of Illustrated Copies
* Appendix 2: Scenes Depicted in Each Illustrated Copy
* Appendix 3: Known Manuscript Copies of the Régime du corps
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Història de l'art
Manuscrits
Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
Il·lustracions
Dones
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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Vegeu https://www.inverse.com/science/medieval-manuscripts
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