Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2025
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy
Angaben zur Quelle:
33,1 (2025) 110-150
Schlagwort(e):
Jews Medicine
;
History
;
Jewish magic History
;
Jewish women History
;
Love Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Sex Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
History of doctrines
Kurzfassung:
This article traces four learned non-Jewish approaches to lovesickness informed primarily by the humoral formulation of illness. These competing theories will be further examined in the writings of professionally trained Jewish physicians and in the manuscript compilations of East European ba‘alei shem, who combined materia medica with Jewish magic and practical Kabbalah in their therapeutic remedies. The article demonstrates that in premodern times, love – in all its emotional and somatogenic facets – was a gendered phenomenon. Within the hierarchy of social and religious power, Jewish women’s bodies were disproportionately subordinated to male desires and subject to male manipulation and exploitation.
DOI:
10.1163/1477285x-12341368
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