Swann Alaya
Bull Hist Med. 2015 Spring;89(1):1-24. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2015.0019.
This article examines late medieval English representations of the startling and apocryphal story of Salome, the skeptical midwife who dares to touch, or at least attempt to touch, the Virgin Mary "in sexu secreto" during a postpartum examination at the nativity. Salome's story originated in the second century, but its late medieval iterations are inflected by a culture interested in evaluating and examining sensory evidence, in both medicine and religion. The story appears in sermon collections, devotional texts, the cycle nativity plays, and John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady, and these variations demonstrate the intersection of gender and experience-based knowledge in medical and devotional contexts. Salome's story provides a unique opportunity to study late medieval interpretations of female medicine, materialism, and spirituality.
本文探讨了中世纪晚期英国对莎乐美那令人震惊且虚构的故事的描绘。莎乐美是一位持怀疑态度的助产士，在耶稣诞生时的产后检查中，她竟敢“秘密地在私处”触碰，或者至少试图触碰圣母玛利亚。莎乐美的故事起源于二世纪，但在中世纪晚期，它受到了一个既对医学又对宗教中感官证据的评估和检验感兴趣的文化的影响。这个故事出现在布道文集、灵修文本、耶稣诞生系列剧以及约翰·利德盖特的《圣母生平》中，这些变体展示了医学和灵修背景下性别与基于经验的知识的交叉。莎乐美的故事为研究中世纪晚期对女性医学、物质主义和灵性的解读提供了一个独特的机会。
