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

Introduction - Naoe Kutika Yoshikawa
Mary the Physician: Women, Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages - Diane Watt
Chaucer's Physicians: Raising Questions of Authority - Roberta Magnani
Heavenly Vision and Psychosomatic Healing: Medical Discourse in Mechtild of Hackeborn's the Booke of Gostlye Grace - Naoe Kutika Yoshikawa
Bathing in Blood: The Medicinal Cures of Anchoritic Devotion - Liz Herbert McAvoy
"Maybe I'm Crazy?" Diagnosis and Contextualisation of Medieval Female Mystics - Juliette Vuille
Purgatory and Spiritual Healing in John Audelay's Poems - Takami Matsuda
Reginald Pecock's Reading Heart and the Health of Body and Soul - Louise M Bishop
Disabled Children: Birth Defects, Causality and Guilt - Irina Metzler
Marking the Face, Curing the Soul? Reading the Disfigurement of Women in the Later Middle Ages - Patricia Skinner
Did Drunkenness Dim the Sight? Medieval Understandings and Responses to Blindness in Medical and Religious Discourse - Joy Hawkins
Between Palliative Care and Curing the Soul: Medical and Religious Responses to Leprosy in France and England, c.1100-c.1500 - Elma Brenner
Afterword - Denis Renevey
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