Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 4985
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  • Title: Hildegard of Bingnen's "Causes and Cures": A Radical Feminist Response to the Doctor-Cook Binary [The author argues that Hildegard sees women's role as cooks expanding to include the balancing of humors and the practice of both medicine and theology; Hildegard tied God's creation to women's bodies and women's work].
  • Source: Hildegard of Bingen: A book of Essays.  Edited by Maud Burnett McInerney.  Garland Publishing, 1998.  Pages 53 - 73.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Cookery Feminist Theory Healers and Healing Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Causae et Curae Medicine
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 12
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  • Year of Publication: 1998.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0815325886