LEADER 04700nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910455950203321 005 20210702024806.0 010 $a0-8122-0469-7 010 $a0-585-43624-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204698 035 $a(CKB)111056486693898 035 $a(OCoLC)604131882 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748480 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000262483 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11206418 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000262483 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10270844 035 $a(PQKB)11047263 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442091 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29823 035 $a(DE-B1597)449792 035 $a(OCoLC)873005529 035 $a(OCoLC)979754107 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204698 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442091 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748480 035 $a(OCoLC)51322175 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486693898 100 $a20000912d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe Trotula$b[electronic resource] $ea medieval compendium of women's medicine /$fedited and translated by Monica H. Green 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-3589-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tEdition and Translation of the Standardized Trotula Ensemble --$tAppendix: Compound Medicines Employed in the Trotula Ensemble --$tNotes --$tIndex Nominum et Locorum --$tIndex Verborum --$tGeneral Index 330 $aThe 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. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aGynecology$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aObstetrics$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aMedicine$zItaly$zSalerno$xHistory 606 $aWomen$xHealth and hygiene$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aMedicine, Medieval 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGynecology 615 0$aObstetrics 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xHealth and hygiene 615 0$aMedicine, Medieval. 676 $a618/.09/02 701 $aGreen$b Monica Helen$0328097 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455950203321 996 $aThe Trotula$92440905 997 $aUNINA