The Genderisation of Healing in Early Christianity
by
Elaine Wainwright
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
'Women Healing/ Healing Women' begins with a search for women who were healers in the Graeco-Roman world of the late Hellenistic and early Roman period. Women healers were honoured in inscriptions and named by medical writers, and were familiar enough to be stereotyped in plays and other writings....