Medical authority and Englishwomen's herbal texts, 1550-1650 / / Rebecca Laroche

• Autore: Laroche Rebecca
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 828.308093561
• Soggetto topico: English prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism; English prose literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Herbals - Great Britain - History; Literature and medicine - Great Britain - History - 16th century; Literature and medicine - Great Britain - History - 17th century; Women in medicine - Great Britain - History - 16th century; Women in medicine - Great Britain - History - 17th century; Botany, Medical - Great Britain - History - 16th century; Botany, Medical - Great Britain - History - 17th century
• Note generali: "First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. "This manlike worke of herbes" : gender and the English herbal -- 2. Inscriptions in herbal texts and the location of medical authority -- 3. Gentlewomen's herbal readings and the absent-present physicians -- 4. Isabella Whitney's herbs : print medical texts and London satire.
• Titolo autorizzato: Medical authority and Englishwomen's herbal texts, 1550-1650
• ISBN: 1-315-24935-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154564503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.