RT Article
T1 Affective Medicine: Later Medieval Healing Communities and the Feminization of Health Care Practices in the Thirteenth-Century Low Countries
JF Journal of medieval religious cultures
VO 40
IS 2
SP 113
OP 143
A1 Ritchey, Sara
LA English
PB Penn State Univ. Press
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1799398013
AB This essay uses saints’ lives and miracle stories to demonstrate the various ways that religiously affiliated women managed for a socially marginalized population the daily experience of health and illness. In this essay I explore how people came to believe in a saint’s ability to heal, how they adapted their feelings and intentions to affective models provided by her vita and miracles, and how they recounted their experiences of this adaptation in stories of bodily healing. I argue that, by examining the healing community that sick petitioners formed around female saints, we might come to recognize whole new categories of health on which medieval medical resources were premised. Furthermore, as scholars of religion, we may better understand the affective and devotional mechanisms through which the sick and indigent came to experience relief.
K1 Liège
K1 Saints
K1 Healing
K1 verbal remedies
K1 Miracles