What were old women presumed to know about medicine, and why was it always old women? Alongside the trope of…
Do old women know medicine?
Embodiment
Practices of relation: Baer and Imhoff
Marc David Baer and Sarah Imhoff discuss each other’s works and the ways they intersect.
Piety, publicity, and the paradox of Islamization
The paradox of Islamization . . . has been that in expanding the scope of Islamic authority and making it…