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Ritual Healing: Magic, Ritual and Medieval Therapy from Antiquity until the Early Modern Period ed. by Ildikó Csepregi and Charles Burnett (review)
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Véronèse, Julien |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Two things particularly struck me when reading these contributions. First, I noted how positively the contributors described their colleague, master, and friend. Françoise Skoda appears as a generous scholar with her time, expertise, and advice. For instance, Alessia Guardasole praises Skoda, “whose work and humanity have been an enlightening and enlightened guide throughout my career” (p. 193); and Gabrielle Lherminier notes, “Mrs Françoise Skoda has always followed and supported me with generosity in my studies, and I found it difficult, with this simple contribution, to find a way to thank her” (p. 285, my translation from the French). Second, I was particularly impressed by the high number of female participants in the volume. Skoda may not present herself as a gender or feminist classicist, but she promoted the career of women in two fields—philology and medical history—that were until recently focused on the male standard. Several studies in this book are “gender” studies in the most basic of senses: they study the linguistic foundations of all social gender constructions. For instance, Véronique Boudon-Millot (pp. 269–83), in her study of the ages of life in Galen’s writings, clarifies the meaning of the Greek term brephos, often simply translated as “infant,” but which covers the fully formed fetus, the newborn, and the infant until the apparition of the child’s first teeth. And Chantal Kircher (pp. 403–14) examines the words used to designate the pregnant woman in Greek, Latin, and several European languages. Language is the primary tool of the classical scholar. In the case of the historian of Greek and Roman medicine, that primary tool is a highly technical vocabulary, full of images, metaphors, and analogies. This volume does much to celebrate this incredibly rich language, and the scholar who did so much for its study: Françoise Skoda. |
| Starting Page | 142 |
| Ending Page | 144 |
| Page Count | 3 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2016.0021 |
| Volume Number | 90 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/613427/pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2016.0021 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
