Women and medicine in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Keywords:
Middle Ages, medieval medicine, female medical practices, female healersAbstract
Reconstructing the history of the healing practices carried out by women all along the Middle Ages and the Renaissance’s first part is not an easy task, since historians have mostly and regularly informed about a series of clichés that, when accurately examined, do not usually rest on a solid foundation. The only way to prove those clichés invalid is by examining the original resources, reading and interpreting them in their general context and in the most objective way. In this paper we collect some of the most insistently repeated clichés and we expose the efforts made by recent historiography in order to try to place those practices and those women where they really belong in history.
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