An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.

Barren Women is the first scholarly book to explore the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. Through an examination of legal tex

This book examines how scientific ideas about sex differences in the later Middle Ages participated in cultural assumptions about gender.

This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250 to 1550. By foregroundi

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