Acts of Care:
​Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health 

"This excellent volume is very well written and clearly argued. It presents, for the first time at book length, and elaborates in an original way a view of what counted as medieval medicine and how it related to religion and charity." --Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway, University of London


"Her fresh and nuanced reading of sources like hagiographies and psalters is a tremendous methodological contribution that will be influential for scholars working on topics beyond the scope of Ritchey's subject matter. For all these reasons, Ritchey's book deserves a wide readership among those interested in the history of medicine, religious women and gender." -- Elizabeth Lehfeldt, Social History of Medicine

Holy Matter: Changing Perceptions of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity 

"Ritchey’s stimulating book offers a rather different account of the power, vitality, and importance of matter and of matter’s relation to spirit than scholars have often assumed. In the end, one could say that this book participates in the same process that it so persuasively and elegantly outlines: training its own readers’ imaginations to see both medieval religious writing and the created world with new eyes and raising fresh questions about what we can apprehend in nature and in the texts that represent it."
Shannon Gayk, Indiana University


"Ritchey's attention to the spiritual theme of God’s infusion into, and hence redemption of, creation will be an important counter both to those who see the period as characterized by concentration on suffering and sacrifice and to those who emphasize discipline, even abuse, of the physical human body in its ascetic practice."
Caroline Bynum, Common Knowledge

Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550,
​eds. Sara Ritchey and Sharon Strocchia

"This outstanding volume of essays... provides an important new resource on women and health care in medieval and early modern Europe. The authors' innovative use of texts and methods shines light on areas that have received little coverage, and many of the articles challenge long-held assumptions." Alisha Rankin, ​Social History of Medicine

"The volume as a whole significantly advances our awareness of the variety, persistence, and pervasiveness of women's contributions to the maintenance and restoration of health, as well as how their medical and caring roles were understood and represented."
​Sandra Cavallo, Reviews in History

Health, Healing, and Caring
Special Issue of Gender & History,
​eds. Kristin Burnett, Sara Ritchey, Lynn M. Thomas

"[The essays] shed light on the many historically-situated ways that care is marginalised, even while remaining the most consistent and sustaining day-to-day factor in the health and wellbeing of our community. Indeed, care work forms the foundations that make possible all other labours."
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Kristin Burnett, Sara Ritchey, Lynn Thomas, "Introduction"