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Darrera modificació: 2025-10-16
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Lee, Minji, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen's Views on the Female Reproductive Body, Leeds, Arc Humanities Press (Borderlines), 2025, 142 pp.
- Resum
- This study of the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen examines her understanding of the womb through her medical work "Cause et cure" and visionary work "Scivias". Medieval tradition viewed female bodies negatively, seeing their porous nature as easily polluted. Women were considered weaker and more vulnerable to spiritual invasion. This volume shows how Hildegard's revolutionary understanding of the female reproductive body reversed these assumptions. She connected female bodily flows not to pollution but to purification, presenting menstruation and reproductive fluids as vital components in natural cleansing and healing processes. The book concludes with a chapter showing how Hildegard's concept of beneficial bodily flow remains relevant in modern Western and non-Western alternative medicine, in which female bodily porosity and fluid exchange continue to be understood as sources of regenerative power.
Conté:
*Introduction · 1
Chapter 1. Female Porosity and Sacred Flow: From Eve and Mary to Hildegard of Bingen · 13
Chapter 2. The Unsealer of Sin · 33
Chapter 3. Releasing Blood and Humours · 51
Chapter 4. Receiving the Spirit, Foam, and Fluids · 69
Chapter 5. Giving Birth to a Baby and Giving Spiritual Birth to Humankind · 91
*Afterword. Alternative Medicine: From Old Knowledge to New Practice Through the Woman's Body · 113
*Bibliography · 125
- Matèries
- Dones
Medicina - Ginecologia, obstetrícia i cosmètica
- URL
- https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/106315
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