
Visualizing Household Health
Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Regime du corps
By: Jennifer Borland
Paperback | 23 April 2024
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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 R gime 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 R gime to show how gender and health care converged within the medieval household.
Visualizing Household Health explores the nature of the households portrayed in the R gime 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 R gime 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.
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ISBN: 9780271093468
ISBN-10: 0271093463
Published: 23rd April 2024
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 240
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 25.3 x 20.4 x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.95
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- Non-FictionReference, Information & Interdisciplinary SubjectsInterdisciplinary StudiesGeneral Studies
- Non-FictionHistoryRegional & National HistoryEuropean History
- Non-FictionHistoryEarliest Times to Present DayEarly History from 500 to 1500Medieval History
- Non-FictionSociety & CultureSocial GroupsGender StudiesGender Studies: Women and Girls
- Non-FictionArts & EntertainmentHistory of Art & Design StylesByzantine & Medieval Art from 500 to 1400
- Non-FictionMedicineMedicine in GeneralMedical Sociology
- Non-FictionMedicineMedicine in GeneralHistory of Medicine