An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.
Current preoccupations with the body have led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion, literature and the history of medicine, and, more specifically, how they converge within a given culture. This collection of essays explores the ways in which aspects of medieval culture were predicated upon an interaction b...
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Introduction – Naoe Kutika Yoshikawa
Mary the Physician: Women, Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages – Diane Watt
Chaucer’s Physicians: Raising Questions of Aut...
About the author
NAOË KUKITA YOSHIKAWA is Professor Emerita of Medieval English Literature at Shizuoka University, and Research Fellow at the Center for Medieval English Literary Te...
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