عنوان

...wurze und aller crute craft und arzatliche meisterschaft...:

Number

TLpq304169227

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

آلمانی

Title Proper

...wurze und aller crute craft und arzatliche meisterschaft...:

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

M. M. Simon

Title Proper by Another Author

Zur Darstellung der heilkundigen Frauen in den mittelhochdeutschen hoefischen Epen

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

H. Richter

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

McGill University (Canada)

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1994

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

94

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Body granting the degree

McGill University (Canada)

Text preceding or following the note

1994

Text of Note

Women have been healers since the dawn of humankind. They had learned their medical skills in a natural way since, as child bearers, they were also the first midwives, nurses, health carers, apothecaries and physicians. That women were skilled in the practice of medicine and that female healers were an accepted part in medieval medical practice is evident from the numerous references describing medical treatment as found in the courtly Middle High German romances. In this study, I will first offer an overview of the medical knowledge and practice of the Middle Ages. Then I will present literary examples and incidences portraying women as healers as described in the German courtly romances of Tristan by Gottfried von Strausd\betausdburg, Erec and Iwein by Hartmann von Aue, and Parzival and Willehalm by Wolfram von Eschenbach, in order to elucidate and complete the image of the medieval female healer. At the time when these romances were created, medical knowledge and practice were greatly influenced by the transmission and reception of Greek & Arabic medical works which formed the basis of a new Latin medical learning. This in turn provided the basis for a growing vernacular European medical literature. On the one hand, medical practice was still based on traditional folk medicine with the female healers preparing and using simple herbal remedies; on the other hand, they resorted to exotic compound medicines, such as theriac, which was closer to the learned book medicine.

German text

Gottfried von Strassburg

Hartmann von Aue

Language, literature and linguistics

Social sciences

Wolfram von Eschenbach

H. Richter

M. M. Simon

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[Thesis]

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