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妇女作为治疗师和医生的创造性表现，比喻和字面上的表现，用她们自己的语言和通过自己的实践。对莎士比亚和医学的研究揭示了早期现代医疗实践和创造性表现的跨学科交叉(SLIGES，2008；Heffernan，1995)，但妇女自己通过创造性表达表达、表达和传递医学知识和实践的问题尚未得到解决。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、手稿交流和边缘表达治疗、促进健康和身体自主的实践。我将介入社会、医学、文学和艺术史的讨论，涉及广泛的叙事和实践，以质疑我们如何理解在早期现代时期，什么是‘治愈’，以及这如何与我们当代关于身体自主、福祉和围绕医学的叙事的辩论相呼应。埃文河畔斯特拉特福德是记录早期现代生活的独特地点，莎士比亚出生地信托基金(SBT)是经批准的存放地点和早期现代研究中心。该项目将与Ailsa Grant Ferguson博士目前的AHRC RDE奖学金项目(2022-2003年)“苏珊娜·霍尔和霍尔的克罗夫特：性别、文化记忆、遗产”产生的新研究和成果相结合，我是该项目的研究官员。这项工作在数字空间档案馆和霍尔克罗夫特以女性福祉为中心的花园中产生了突破性的空间输出，这将为我自己的反身实践创造独特的空间。我将继续把重点放在埃文河畔斯特拉特福德和南沃里克郡，SBT的档案，以及更密切地讯问省级英国妇女作为病人和治疗师，以及与SBT接触，通过研究成果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.