Browsing Centre for Gender & Womens Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Date of Publication

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    • Saintly systems of healing: images, devotion and cures 

      Lawless, Catherine (Manchester University Press, 2025)
      Jacques Le Goff notes that in the Middle Ages the body did not exist in itself but was always co-penetrated with the soul. The experiences of illness and therapeutic regimes, involving prayer, imagery, magico-religious ...

    • Vetula, Vecchia, Prophetess, Saint: the Old Woman in the Florentine Trecento 

      Lawless, Catherine (Brepols, 2025)
      This chapter examines the representation of the old woman in Florentine art. It will look at figures coded as elderly such as St Elizabeth, St Anne, and Anna the Prophetess and place them within their devotional context. ...