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.

From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status

Explores the interplay of medicine and religion in Western societies. Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship betwee