Posts Tagged ‘healing practices’
Anna Margaretha Wiedemann: a Healing Woman and her Patients in Early Modern Frankfurt by Jana Schreiber
In 1670, a conflict between Frankfurt surgeons and the healer Anna Margaretha Wiedemann broke out. The surviving sources offer deep insights into the practice of women healers in the early…
Read MoreFrom Body to Soul: Mental Disorders in Hildegard of Bingen’s “Cause et Cure” by Giulia Guidara
The Cause et cure of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) is both a cosmological text and a medical handbook. This double aspect, so to speak, of the work is not surprising: in medieval…
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