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[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

@LibbyPe88479204 I love this forward thinking of Herrad! To accept her knowledge, but understand there was room for advancement, for more knowledge #mcguire #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

@LivellMegan I found it interesting how women were given these books to teach them to behave through their faith when married. Perfect way to raise a wife/woman in their faith and in their marriage? #engl380 #penketh

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

@LibbyPe88479204 In a way it’s still the deprivation of knowledge to the common woman. Women of nobility/money or of the Church were given knowledge of Latin, but common women were deprived #Penketh #Engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

Wildcard: In #bell The printing press opened doors for the exploration of texts, which allowed women at the end of 15th century to collect books and inherit books. Women educating women! #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

Wildcard: In #McGuire another mystic! Hildegard’s three books of her visions were interesting perspectives on living divinely in the way of the Lord! I am fascinated by these medieval women who are mystics and their need to speak and be heard in their writings #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

@Soymilkwith21 The fear of knowledge is wild! To deprive women and slaves of gaining knowledge in order to contain them as lesser individuals in society has me shocked. Deprivation didn’t stop the power of women and colored minorities who worked and empowered themselves #bell #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

Wildcard: Women like Herrad and Hildegard in #Bell were the head of opening the opportunity for education within their abbeys. This course has helped me realize to appreciate the freedom to read and share knowledge/text as a woman #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

I am frustrated how women were denied knowledge of the written word or only given it when in the faith of being like Mary. Church fathers still restricting women #Bell #Engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

In #Penketh there is a illustration text that symbolically represents a man as a monkey with his sex and women as sirens who self admired, which makes me think how women are always seen as prideful temptress vs men and their innocent instinct with their sexuality #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

@lily_aubuchon For awhile, I will admit I could not stop thinking of marshmallows being mixed into these natural remedies (KNOWING they did not exist back then) #engl380 #trotula

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

@lily_aubuchon @ashleyc33686657 Technological advances of medical services are mind blowing! I have noticed too the trend of natural remedies or natural eating, but I also remember how a lot of people died because natural remedies didn’t cut it with serious illnesses or food was unsafe to eat #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

@lily_aubuchon Not only for the whitening of the face, but also for hands and teeth was shocking to me, but teeth whitening is still huge. I agree that the beauty industry is shifting into diverse ethnicities that represent beauty — what a long way it’s come & has to go still #trotula #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

@Soymilkwith21 @lily_aubuchon The medical practices in #Trotula were interesting! I especially laughed at the prescribed health care for worms of the ears, which consists of putting an apple to the ear and baiting the worm to come out #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

Wildcard: In #Trotula I was intrigued by the natural remedies for treatment of women with rain water to old soles of shoes for accidental freckles to deafness of the ears, which just reminds me of all the witch potions ever made. Am I influenced by church perspective? #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

Wildcard: Misogyny in this week’s reading too is how men controlled the health care system, but instead of being applicators of healing they looked at the science of healing — men just regurgitating other men’s justification of being in power of knowledge & health #Casey #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

The misogyny because of men’s insecurity of their university-trained health care v. Natural healing remedies and hand of women #barrett #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

Only seven years of care for orphaned children? And now a days, it ranges from infant to 21 years old in some states! At age 6, those kids were left a year to figure out how to live beyond the Church services in the real world — frightening #minkowski #engl380

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

Wildcard: Strange how women healers were hunted down because of superstition of their natural remedies and healing ways, but to me sounds like a take over of the Church on society to control health services #minkowski #engl380

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@Brandon29855427 @Rebecca48174788 I enjoyed Abelard’s line of confession: “I saw her, I loved her, I resolved to make her love me” and how he became infatuated with Heloise to where she was his world of pursuits, passion, and purpose #engl380 #A&H

[theisabelmanu @theisabelmanu]

@Soymilkwith21 @rad977lu This reminds me of #CdePizan “if you feel your passions make you impulsive, have Reason take you into her school and teach you to put your feelings in order”, which Abelard went to school, BUT he let his feelings become wildly passionately for Heloise.. #engl380