Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy. Sharon T. Strocchia. I...
Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy. Sharon T. Strocchia. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. xii + 330 pp. $49.95
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Convent patronage was a respectable outlet by which Western noblewomen could assert agency, acquire clients, and perform piety; in turn, nuns formulated remedies and spiritual gifts for their patrons and deployed courtly munificence to further their charitable mission, often by constructing commercial pharmacies. The breadth of Strocchia's archival...
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Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy. Sharon T. Strocchia. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. xii + 330 pp. $49.95
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2575762344
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0034-4338
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1935-0236
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10.1017/rqx.2021.127
