Author: Tara E. Nummedal
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Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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Author: Tara E. Nummedal
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Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Author: Alisha Rankin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226925382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Panaceia’s Daughters provides the first book-length study of noblewomen’s healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many gained widespread fame for their remedies. Turning a common historical argument on its head, Rankin maintains that noblewomen’s pharmacy came to prominence not in spite of their gender but because of it. Rankin demonstrates the ways in which noblewomen’s pharmacy was bound up in notions of charity, class, religion, and household roles, as well as in expanding networks of knowledge and early forms of scientific experimentation. The opening chapters place noblewomen’s healing within the context of cultural exchange, experiential knowledge, and the widespread search for medicinal recipes in early modern Europe. Case studies of renowned healers Dorothea of Mansfeld and Anna of Saxony then demonstrate the value their pharmacy held in their respective roles as elderly widow and royal consort, while a study of the long-suffering Duchess Elisabeth of Rochlitz emphasizes the importance of experiential knowledge and medicinal remedies to the patient’s experience of illness.

Author: Pamela Smith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135300283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in both art and science, underwent a profound transformation between the age of the Renaissance and the early 1700s.

Author: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
ISBN: 9780772720238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: David C. Lindberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521572444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 833

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An account of European knowledge of the natural world, c.1500-1700.

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Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 1094

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Author: Stanford University
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Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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