Healing women: Early modern women as healers in their own texts, practices and representations

这将是第一次研究早期现代英国女性作为治疗师和医疗从业者用她们自己的语言和实践的创造性表现，比喻和字面意思。对莎士比亚和医学的研究揭示了早期现代医学实践和创造性表现的跨学科交叉（Slights, 2008; Heffernan, 1995），但女性自己通过创造性表达对医学知识和实践的表现、表达和传播尚未得到解决。我将研究早期现代女性如何通过她们自己的文学和视觉艺术、手稿交流和旁注来表达治疗、促进健康和身体自主的做法。我将介入社会、医学、文学和艺术史的论述，涉及广泛的叙事和实践，以询问我们如何理解在现代早期，“治愈”是什么，以及这如何与我们当代围绕身体自主、健康和医学叙事的辩论相关联。埃文河畔的斯特拉特福是一个独特的记录完好的早期现代生活的地点，莎士比亚出生地信托基金（SBT）是一个被批准的存放地方和早期现代研究中心。该项目将与艾尔萨·格兰特·弗格森博士目前的AHRC RDE奖学金项目（2022-3）产生的新研究和产出相结合，“苏珊娜·霍尔和霍尔的克罗夫特：性别，文化记忆，遗产”，我在其中担任研究官员。这项工作在数字空间档案和Hall's Croft的女性福祉花园中产生了开创性的空间输出，这将为我自己的反思实践创造独特的空间。我将继续关注埃文河畔斯特拉特福和南沃里克郡，SBT的档案，以及对英国省级妇女作为患者和治疗师的更密切的讯问，以及通过研究成果与SBT合作，创造有影响力的公众参与。

This will be the first study of the creative representation, figurative and literal, of early modern Englishwomen as healers and medical practitioners in their own words and via their own practices. The interdisciplinary intersection of early modern medical practices and creative representations has been exposed by studies of Shakespeare and medicine (Slights, 2008; Heffernan, 1995) but women's own representation, expression and transmission of medical knowledge and practice through creative expression has not been addressed. I will examine how early modern women expressed the practices of healing, promoting wellbeing and bodily autonomy via their own literary and visual art, manuscript communication, and marginalia. I will intervene in discourses of social, medical, literary and art history engaging with a broad range of narratives and practices to query how we understand what it was, in the early modern period, to 'heal' and how that speaks to our contemporary debates around bodily autonomy, wellbeing, and the narratives around medicine. Stratford-upon-Avon is a uniquely well-documented site of early-modern life and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) is an approved place of deposit and early modern studies hub. The project will engage with new research and outputs generated by Dr Ailsa Grant Ferguson's current AHRC RDE Fellowship project, 2022-3, 'Susanna Hall and Hall's Croft: Gender, Cultural Memory, Heritage', on which I am working as Research Officer. This work is producing ground-breaking spatial outputs in a digital spatial archive and a women's wellbeing-focussed garden at Hall's Croft that will create unique spaces for my own reflexive practice. I will continue to focus on Stratford-upon-Avon and south Warwickshire, the archives of the SBT, and a closer interrogation of provincial English women as patients and healers, as well as engaging with the SBT to create impactful public engagement through research outputs.