Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550

Sara Ritchey is Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and is author of Holy Matter: Changing Perceptions of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity (2014).Sharon Strocchia is Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta. A social and cultural historian of Renaissance Italy, she has published widely on women, religion, and health-related topics. Her most recent book is Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy (2019).