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Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550–1650

Author : Rebecca Laroche
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351918796
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550–1650 by : Rebecca Laroche

Download or read book Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550–1650 written by Rebecca Laroche and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study to analyze print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender and to present original findings to do with early modern women's ownership of these herbals, Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts also looks at reasons and contexts behind early modern female writers claiming herbal practice. Author Rebecca Laroche first establishes cultural backdrops in the gendering of medical authority that takes place in the herbals and the regular ownership of these herbals by women. She then examines women's engagements with herbal texts in life writings and poetry and asks how these moments represent and engage medical authority. In ultimately demonstrating how female writers variously take on women's herbal medical practices, Laroche reveals the broad range of literary potentials within the historical category of women's medicine.

Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II

Author : Amy L. Tigner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131710434X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II by : Amy L. Tigner

Download or read book Literature and the Renaissance Garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II written by Amy L. Tigner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic prosperity, and national identity in early modern England. In the first part of the study, Amy L. Tigner traces the conceptual forms that the paradise imaginary takes in works by Gascoigne, Spenser, and Shakespeare, all of whom depict the garden as a space in which to imagine the national body of England and the gendered body of the monarch. In the concluding chapters, she discusses the function of gardens in the literary works by Jonson, an anonymous masque playwright, and Milton, the herbals of John Gerard and John Parkinson, and the tract writing of Ralph Austen, Lawrence Beal, and Walter Blithe. In these texts, the paradise imaginary is less about the body politic of the monarch and more about colonial pursuits and pressing environmental issues. As Tigner identifies, during this period literary representations of gardens become potent discursive models that both inspire constructions of their aesthetic principles and reflect innovations in horticulture and garden technology. Further, the development of the botanical garden ushers in a new world of science and exploration. With the importation of a new world of plants, the garden emerges as a locus of scientific study: hybridization, medical investigation, and the proliferation of new ornamentals and aliments. In this way, the garden functions as a means to understand and possess the rapidly expanding globe.

A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen

Author : Carole Levin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315440709
Total Pages : 903 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen written by Carole Levin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the exemplary to the notorious to the obscure, this comprehensive and innovative encyclopedia showcases the worthy women of early modern England. Poets, princesses, or pirates, the women of power and agency found in these pages are indeed worth knowing, and this volume will introduce many female figures to even the most established scholars in early modern studies. Rather than using the conventional alphabetical format of the standard biographical encyclopedia, this volume is divided into categories of women. Since many women will fit in more than one category, each woman is placed in the category that best exemplifies her life, and is cross referenced in other appropriate sections. This structure makes the book an interesting read for seasoned scholars of early modern women, while students need not already be familiar with these subjects in order to benefit from the text. Another unusual feature of this reference work is that each entry begins with some incident from the woman’s life that is particularly exciting or significant. Some entries are very brief while others are extensive. Each includes a source listing. The book is well illustrated and liberally sprinkled with quotations of the time either by or about the women in the text.

Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine

Author : Anne Stobart
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144118418X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine by : Anne Stobart

Download or read book Critical Approaches to the History of Western Herbal Medicine written by Anne Stobart and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides new ideas to address today's global development challenges, evaluating past experience and exploring answers for the future.

Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600–1700

Author : Lyn Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108654878
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600–1700 by : Lyn Bennett

Download or read book Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600–1700 written by Lyn Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did physicians come to dominate the medical profession? Lyn Bennett challenges the seemingly self-evident belief that scientific competence accounts for physicians' dominance. Instead, she argues that the whole enterprise of learned medicine was, in large measure, facilitated by an intensely classical education that included extensive training in rhetoric, and that this rhetorical training is ultimately responsible for the achievement of professional dominance. Bennett examines previously unexplored connections among writers and genres as well as competing livelihoods and classes. Engaging the histories of rhetoric, medicine, literature, and culture throughout, she goes on to focus specifically on the work of women who professed as well as practiced medicine. Pointing to some of the ways women's writing shapes realities of body, mind, and spirit as it negotiates social, cultural, and professional ideologies of gender, this book offers an important corrective to some long-held beliefs about women's role in early modern discourse.

Preserving on Paper

Author : Kristine Kowalchuk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487520034
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Preserving on Paper written by Kristine Kowalchuk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preserving on Paper is a critical edition of three seventeenth-century receipt books-handwritten manuals that included a combination of culinary recipes, medical remedies, and household tips which documented the work of women at home.

Bodies, Speech, and Reproductive Knowledge in Early Modern England

Author : Sara D. Luttfring
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317534468
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Bodies, Speech, and Reproductive Knowledge in Early Modern England by : Sara D. Luttfring

Download or read book Bodies, Speech, and Reproductive Knowledge in Early Modern England written by Sara D. Luttfring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines early modern representations of women’s reproductive knowledge through new readings of plays, monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatises, court records, histories, and more, which are often interpreted as depicting female reproductive bodies as passive, silenced objects of male control and critique. Luttfring argues instead that these texts represent women exercising epistemological control over reproduction through the stories they tell about their bodies and the ways they act these stories out, combining speech and physical performance into what Luttfring calls 'bodily narratives.' The power of these bodily narratives extends beyond knowledge of individual bodies to include the ways that women’s stories about reproduction shape the patriarchal identities of fathers, husbands, and kings. In the popular print and theater of early modern England, women’s bodies, women’s speech, and in particular women’s speech about their bodies perform socially constitutive work: constructing legible narratives of lineage and inheritance; making and unmaking political alliances; shaping local economies; and defining/delimiting male socio-political authority in medical, royal, familial, judicial, and economic contexts. This book joins growing critical discussion of how female reproductive bodies were used to represent socio-political concerns and will be of interest to students and scholars working in early modern literature and culture, women’s history, and the history of medicine.

Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade

Author : Sarah Neville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009033042
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade written by Sarah Neville and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1525 and 1640, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in the world of print: England saw the production of more than two dozen editions identified by their imprints or by contemporaries as 'herbals'. Sarah Neville explains how this genre grew from a series of tiny anonymous octavos to authoritative folio tomes with thousands of woodcuts, and how these curious works quickly became valuable commodities within a competitive print marketplace. Designed to serve readers across the social spectrum, these rich material artifacts represented both a profitable investment for publishers and an opportunity for authors to establish their credibility as botanists. Highlighting the shifting contingencies and regulations surrounding herbals and English printing during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the book argues that the construction of scientific authority in Renaissance England was inextricably tied up with the circumstances governing print. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Conserving health in early modern culture

Author : Sandra Cavallo
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526113503
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Conserving health in early modern culture written by Sandra Cavallo and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture documents the profound impact which ideas about healthy living had on daily practices as well as on intellectual life and the material world in this period. In both countries staying healthy was understood as depending on the careful management of the six ‘Non-Naturals’: the air one breathed, food and drink, excretions, sleep, exercise and repose, and the ‘passions of the soul’. To a close scrutiny, however, models of prevention differed considerably in Italy and England, reflecting country-specific cultural, political and medical contexts and different confessional backgrounds. The following two chapters are available open access on a CC-BY-NC-ND license here: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=633180 3 'Ordering the infant': caring for newborns in early modern England - Leah Astbury 4 'She sleeps well and eats an egg': convalescent care in early modern England - Hannah Newton

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700

Author : Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192604732
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 written by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge from recipes and needlework to medicines and secret codes. Chapters investigate the ways in which women's writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women's lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. It explores the intersections of women writing in English with those writing in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek, in Europe and in New England, and argues for an archipelagic understanding of women's writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Finally, it reflects on—and challenges—the methodologies which have developed in, and with, the field: book and manuscript history, editing, digital analysis, premodern critical race studies, network theory, queer theory, and feminist theory. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women's writing in English at present.

The Herbalist's Bible

Author : Julie Bruton-Seal
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1629149837
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Herbalist's Bible written by Julie Bruton-Seal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lost classic of Western herbalism—rediscovered and restored with 200 full-color images. Herbalist to King Charles I, John Parkinson (1567–1650) was a master apothecary, herbalist, and gardener. Famous in his own lifetime for his influential books, his magnum opus, the Theatrum Botanicum, was published in 1640 and ran to 1,766 large pages. The sheer scope and size was perhaps to prove the book’s downfall, because while it was much revered—and plagiarized—it was never reprinted and, centuries later, has attained the status of an extremely rare and valuable book. Parkinson was writing at a time when Western herbalism was at its zenith, and his skills as a gardener (from his grounds in Covent Garden) combined perfectly with his passion for science, observation, and historical scholarship. In the The Herbalist’s Bible, Julie Bruton-Seal and Matthew Seal have beautifully combined selections from Parkinson’s book with their own modern commentary on how each plant is used today to create a truly one-of-a-kind, comprehensive collection of herbal information old and new. Parkinson’s clear and lively description of a chosen plant’s “vertues” or healing properties side-by-side with the editors’ notes—including copious herbal recipes—make this the perfect book for students and practitioners of herbalism, historians, and gardeners, all of whom will welcome this restoration of Parkinson’s lost classic.

The History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690

Author : M. Suzuki
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230305504
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690 written by M. Suzuki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe

Author : Amanda L. Capern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000709590
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe by : Amanda L. Capern

Download or read book The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe written by Amanda L. Capern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the current contours and chronologies of European history by observing them through the lens of female experience. The collaborative research of this book covers four themes: the affective world; practical knowledge for life; politics and religion; arts, science and humanities. These themes are interwoven through the chapters, which encompass all areas of women’s lives: sexuality, emotions, health and wellbeing, educational attainment, litigation and the practical and leisured application of knowledge, skills and artistry from medicine to theology. The intellectual lives of women, through reading and writing, and their spirituality and engagement with the material world, are also explored. So too is the sheer energy of female work, including farming and manufacture, skilled craft and artwork, theatrical work and scientific enquiry. The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe revises the chronological and ideological parameters of early-modern European history by opening the reader’s eyes to an exciting age of female productivity, social engagement and political activism across European and transatlantic boundaries. It is essential reading for students and researchers of early-modern history, the history of women and gender studies.

The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish

Author : Justin Begley
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030929272
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish written by Justin Begley and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary on a fascinating but almost entirely overlooked manuscript compilation of medical recipes and letters, which is held in the University of Nottingham. Collected by the Marquess and Marchioness of Newcastle, William and Margaret Cavendish, during the 1640s and 1650s, this manuscript features letters of advice, recipes, and sundry philosophical and medical reflections by some of the most formidable and influential physicians, philosophers, and courtly scholars of the early seventeenth century. These include “Europe’s physician” Theodore de Mayerne, the adventurer and courtier Kenelm Digby, and the natural philosopher, poet, and playwright Margaret Cavendish. While the transcription and accompanying annotations will allow a diverse array of readers to appreciate the manuscript for the first time, the introduction situates the Cavendishes’ recipe collecting habits, medical preoccupations, natural philosophical views, and politics within their social, cultural, and philosophical contexts, and draws out some of the most significant implications of this important document.

Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England

Author : Jennifer Evans
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0861933249
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England written by Jennifer Evans and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that aphrodisiacs were used not simply for sexual pleasure, but, more importantly, to enhance fertility and reproductive success; and that at that time sexual desire and pleasure were felt to be far more intimately connected to conception and fertility than is the case today.

Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England

Author : Anne Stobart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472580370
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Book Synopsis Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England by : Anne Stobart

Download or read book Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England written by Anne Stobart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs? What household resources were available for medical self-help? To what extent did households make up remedies based on medicinal recipes? Drawing on previously unpublished household papers ranging from recipes to accounts and letters, this original account shows how health and illness were managed on a day-to-day basis in a variety of 17th-century households. It reveals the extent of self-help used by families, explores their favourite remedies and analyses differences in approaches to medical matters. Anne Stobart illuminates cultures of health care amongst women and men, showing how 'kitchin physick' related to the business of medicine, which became increasingly commercial and professional in the 18th century.

Female Alliances

Author : Amanda E. Herbert
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300177402
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Female Alliances written by Amanda E. Herbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In the first book-length historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, Amanda Herbert draws on a series of interlocking microhistorical studies to demonstrate the vitality and importance of bonds formed between British women in the long eighteenth century. She shows that while these alliances were central to women’s lives, they were also instrumental in building the British Atlantic world.