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The Trotula - A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine (Hardcover)
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The Trotula - A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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The Trotula A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine Edited and
translated by Monica H. Green "This long-awaited book makes
available an English translation of a set of texts which, in its
various versions, both in Latin and in translations into many
western European vernacular languages, represents the most
important collection of material on women's diseases and their
treatments for the period from the twelfth to the fifteenth
centuries."--"Social History of Medicine" ""The Trotula: A Medieval
Compendium of Women's Medicine" furnishes students and scholars
with an invaluable reference. Backed by more than twenty years of
scrupulous research and publication, as well as an insightful
methodology, it also provides them with an object of inspiration.
Green's work is a remarkable example of scholarship."--"Comitatus"
"The Trotula" was the most influential compendium on women's
medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on
the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula,
said to have been the first female professor of medicine in
eleventh- or twelfth-century Salerno, just south of Naples, then
the leading center of medical learning in Europe. Yet as Monica H.
Green reveals in her introduction to this first edition of the
Latin text since the sixteenth century, and the first English
translation of the book ever based upon a medieval form of the
text, the "Trotula" is not a single treatise but an ensemble of
three independent works, each by a different author. To varying
degrees, these three works reflect the synthesis of indigenous
practices of southern Italians with the new theories, practices,
and medicinal substances coming out of the Arabic world. Arguing
that these texts can be understood only within the intellectual and
social context that produced them, Green analyzes them against the
background of historical gynecological literature as well as
current knowledge about women's lives in twelfth-century southern
Italy. She examines the history and composition of the three works
and introduces the reader to the medical culture of medieval
Salerno from which they emerged. Among her findings is that the
second of the three texts, "On the Treatments for Women," does
derive from the work of a Salernitan woman healer named Trota.
However, the other two texts--"On the Conditions of Women" and "On
Women's Cosmetics"--are probably of male authorship, a fact
indicating the complex gender relations surrounding the production
and use of knowledge about the female body. Through an exhaustive
study of the extant manuscripts of the "Trotula," Green presents a
critical edition of the so-called standardized Trotula ensemble, a
composite form of the texts that was produced in the mid-thirteenth
century and circulated widely in learned circles. The facing-page
complete English translation makes the work accessible to a broad
audience of readers interested in medieval history, women's
studies, and premodern systems of medical thought and practice.
Monica H. Green is Associate Professor of History at Duke
University. The Middle Ages Series 2001 320 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 9
illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3589-0 Cloth $79.95s 52.00 ISBN
978-0-8122-0469-8 Ebook $79.95s 52.00 World Rights History,
Medicine Short copy: "This long-awaited book makes available . . .
the most important collection of material on women's diseases and
their treatments for the period from the twelfth to the fifteenth
centuries."--"Social History of Medicine"
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