Female Saints as Agents of Female Healing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iliana Kandzha
Keyword(s):  
Late Medieval ◽  
Medical Specialization ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Medical Market ◽  
Gender Aspects ◽  
Healing Cult ◽  
Female Saints

This essay studies the mechanics informing the construction of a single healing cult, that of the virgin saint Empress Cunigunde (c.980-1033) and its gender aspects. The shrine of St. Cunigunde in Bamberg was well known as a healing space after her canonization in 1200, although the first miracle collection does not reveal any medical specialization of the cult. Using previously neglected late medieval narrative and archival material, the essay shows that Cunigunde was a popular female patron whose assistance was sought by women, especially during childbirth. This case of female medical patronage is analysed alongside similar practices in the cults of other saints and is regarded as one of the resources for female convalescence in the medical market of that time.

A. G. Dickens and the late medieval Church

2004 ◽  
Vol 77 (195) ◽  
pp. 98-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eamon Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Medieval Church ◽  
Religious Formation

Abstract In this article A. G. Dickens's writings about late medieval religion are located in the context of early twentieth-century English historiography, in particular the controversies between Cardinal Aidan Gasquet and Dr. G. G. Coulton. The article argues that despite his desire for judicious objectivity, and despite also his innovatory use of hitherto neglected types of archival material, Dickens's essentially negative assessment of the state of the late medieval Church was shaped by his own early religious formation, and by a Protestant/whig outlook which he shared with Coulton. As a consequence, he understood some mainstream Tudor religious emphases and convictions as ‘medieval’, by which he meant backward-looking minority concerns.

scholarly journals Janna Coomans - Food Offenders: Public Health and the Marketplace in the Late Medieval Low Countries

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janna Coomans
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Food Standards ◽  
Craft Guilds ◽  
Important Evidence

In the Low Countries, market squares were the site of numerous threats to public health and efforts to contain them, notably by the officials who inspected, guarded, and protected these spaces. This chapter explores the ways in which urban authorities and other corporate bodies attempted to police markets, and improve levels of sanitation, environmental health, and food safety. It utilizes archival material from several Netherlandish cities, including financial records and public decrees, bylaws, and the statutes of trade and craft guilds (which furnish important evidence about the ways in which medical theories informed attitudes to food standards). An analysis of registered fines and information about the punishment of offenders highlights the tensions that existed between customers, vendors, guilds, and magistrates.

scholarly journals Private surgery clinics in an open medical market: Barcelona, 1880s-1936

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-113
Author(s):  
Alfons Zarzoso
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Medical Specialization ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Medical Market ◽  
Health Insurance Companies ◽  
City State

The main purpose of this article is to examine how a new medical technology – the operating room- resulted in the establishment of a model of private clinics in late 19th – century Barcelona. This research explains that this kind of private medical care happened in an open medical market and successfully met a growing demand. Since its origins in the 1880s, private surgery clinics rose to more than 50 in just half-a-century. Here, several business strategies put at work by those surgeons-entrepreneurs are considered, especially those related to publicity and the search of patients/customers. Several aspects played a paramount role in that success: medical technology, domestic comfort, and surgical efficacy. In a context where medical care delivered at hospital was provided by the city-state or the local bourgeoisie as a part of the medieval model of charity, a potential customer for the private surgery clinics was formed by the urban, popular and working classes through the model of mutual aid societies and health insurance companies. Moreover, private clinics also showed how the process of medical specialization was configured and what kind of relationships surgeons-entrepreneurs established with general practitioners to attract their patients. Here, medical directories and medical journals reveal as a useful source of information.

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