Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures and Tables 7
4. Acknowledgments 11
5. Abbreviations 13
6. Introduction 15
7. Part 1. Sources of Religious Healing
8. 1 Caring by the Hours. The Psalter as a Gendered Healthcare Technology 41
9. 2 Female Saints as Agents of Female Healing. Gendered Practices and Patronage in the Cult of St. Cunigunde 67
10. Part 2. Producing and Transmitting Medical Knowledge
11. 3 Blood, Milk, and Breastbleeding. The Humoral Economy of Women’s Bodies in Medieval Medicine 93
12. 4 Care of the Breast in the Late Middle Ages. The Tractatus de passionibus mamillarum 119
13. 5 Household Medicine for a Renaissance Court. Caterina Sforza’s Ricettario Reconsidered 139
14. 6. Understanding/Controlling the Female Body in Ten Recipes. Print and the Dissemination of Medical Knowledge about Women in the Early Sixteenth Century 167
15. Part 3. Infirmity and Care
16. 7 Ubi non est mulier, ingemiscit egens? Gendered Perceptions of Care from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries 191
17. 8 Domestic Care in the Sixteenth Century. Expectations, Experiences, and Practices from a Gendered Perspective 215
18. 9 Bathtubs as a Healing Approach in Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Medicine 245
19. Part 4. (In)fertility and Reproduction
20. 10 Gender, Old Age, and the Infertile Body in Medieval Medicine 267
21. 11 Gender Segregation and the Possibility of Arabo-Galenic Gynecological Practice in the Medieval Islamic World 291
22. Afterword. Healing Women and Women Healers 315
23. Contributors 325
24. Index 327