The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2001

The Trotula

A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine

Edited by: Monica H. Green

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204698

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About this book

"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

Author / Editor information

Monica H. Green is Associate Professor of History at Duke University.

Reviews

"Thanks to Monica H. Green's splendid new critical edition and translation . . . one of the toughest nuts of medieval medical learning has been cracked. . . . The introduction and translation are spirited and readable; both could be profitably assigned to undergraduates and would provide an excellent entry not only into medieval women's medicine but also into the rich worlds of medical practice and textual transmission."—Speculum

"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

"This is the definitive Trotula, a new edition of which will not be necessary. . . . This book will be useful to historians of medicine, of women's studies, of medieval culture, and of southern Italy, and to graduate, and even undergraduate students interested in grappling with the actual practice of medieval medicine."—The Medieval Review

"Specialists and more general readers will find here rigorous and satisfying answers to questions about medieval medicine, women's health, women's learning and practical traditions, and about the convergence of classical, Arabic, and local knowledge."—Joan Cadden, University of California, Davis

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Edition and Translation of the Standardized Trotula Ensemble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Appendix: Compound Medicines Employed in the Trotula Ensemble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Index Nominum et Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Index Verborum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 9 illus.
Keywords: History; Medicine; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Health; Caregiving

eBook

Published: July 17, 2013
ISBN: 9780812204698