There is however 'scant evidence of female practitioners: according to those records, women represent fewer than 2 per cent of the total recorded practitioners in late-medieval France and England, and even fewer in Iberia’s Kingdom of Aragon, the regions for which we have firm numbers'.

Some of them acted as official caregivers who served as midwives or wetnurses, as nursing sisters in hospitals, or as nuns who maintained apothecary shops'.

But, 'hundreds of devout single women dedicated their lives to active charity in which they cared for the poor, sick and indigent in private homes, in hospitals and on city streets. Then, (at 28 mins) how important were female healthcare givers in the medieval world? Dr Sara Ritchey says that 'ideas about medieval medicine often conjure images of men donning plague masks, carrying leech flasks, and sporting an assortment of backwards, painful and toxic remedies'. But read as an allegory intended to justify the ways of God to man, it is wicked'. For example, the book of Job, read as fiction, is a tragedy that explores the nature of grief and the experience of endurance through loss.

We would presumably feel the same way, he continues, 'if we were to read it the way we read Gilgamesh or The Iliad. We go to them for cultural heritage and ancestral wisdom, but rarely for moral instruction, or as a guide to ethical conduct'. If we read the Bible as do a Greek myth 'we are not burdened by a demand to see them as anything more than great stories. He reminds us that 'r eligions are literary phenomena: they are based on storytelling they rely on moral allegories for instruction and express their ideas through poetry they use literary tools like metaphor and symbolism and they depend on language as the delivery system for truth'. Then, (at 13 mins) Amanda gets on her soapbox to rant about what's not in the news.Īlso, (at 15 mins) can the Bible be read as work of literature rather than a scripture? Jared Marcel Pollen thinks so. But they are no substitute for actual regional engagement'. That 'Biden has yet to speak to a single Southeast Asian leader'. He goes through what has happened so far and why China appears to be the only US focus and says that 'Southeast Asia is always going to be at the epicentre of this contest' and concludes that 'the Quad, NATO, G7 and AUKUS all have much to contribute. Does the Biden Presidency have a plan for the Indo-Pacific? Henry Storey argues that 't here is a gaping hole right at the centre of US President Joe Biden’s Indo-Pacific strategy – the lack of anything beyond perfunctory efforts to engage with Southeast Asia'.

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