Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime Du Corps by Borland, Jennifer

Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime Du Corps

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health...
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Author: Jennifer Borland
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Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime Du Corps by Borland, Jennifer

Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime Du Corps

Dhs. 1,069.38

Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime Du Corps

Dhs. 1,069.38
Author: Jennifer Borland
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Régime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential, with nearly seventy surviving copies made over the next two hundred years and translations in at least four other languages. In Visualizing Household Health, art historian Jennifer Borland uses the Régime to show how gender and health care converged within the medieval household.

Visualizing Household Health explores the nature of the households portrayed in the Régime and how their members interacted with professionalized medicine. Borland focuses on several illustrated versions of the manuscript that contain historiated initials depicting simple scenes related to health care, such as patients' consultations with physicians, procedures like bloodletting, and foods and beverages recommended for good health. Borland argues that these images provide important details about the nature of women's agency in the home--and offer highly compelling evidence that women enacted multiple types of health care. Additionally, she contends, the Régime opens a window onto the history of medieval women as owners, patrons, and readers of books.

Interdisciplinary in scope, this book broadens notions of the medieval medical community and the role of women in medieval health care. It will be welcomed by scholars and students of women's history, art history, book history, and the history of medicine.



Author: Jennifer Borland
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 02/21/2022
Pages: 219
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.80lbs
Size: 10.16h x 8.03w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780271090597

About the Author
Borland, Jennifer: - Jennifer Borland is Professor of Art History and Director of the Humanities Initiative at Oklahoma State University. She is a founding member of the Material Collective and managing editor of the journal Different Visions.

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