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Darrera modificació: 2018-10-04
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Green, Monica H., ‘Cliff Notes' on the Circulation of the Gynecological Texts of Soranus and Muscio in the Middle Ages, publ. electrònica, 2017, 12 pp.
- Resum
- Besides the so-called Trotula texts, the single most influential works in medieval western Europe for womenÕs medicine were treatises and images derived from the Gynaikeia (Gynecology) composed originally in Greek by Soranus of Ephesus in the late 1st or early 2nd century CE. It is important to stress "derived from," since none of these works were complete translations of Soranus, whose name was virtually unknown in the medieval West. Most influential, ironically, were the images of fetal positions that had probably accompanied the original Greek text. Although commonly misunderstood as showing the "development" of the fetus, these actually were meant (and continued to be understood) as diagrams to instruct the reader on the ways the fetus (or fetuses, in cases of multiples) could malpresent at birth. The images took on a life of their own in the 13th century when they were separated from the most important translation of Soranus, that of Muscio. They then received a new life when incorporated in the 16th century into printed texts on generation and reproduction, particularly Eucharius Ršsslin's Rosengarten (known in English as The Birth of Mankind). This timeline captures the main points of the fate of these texts and images as they circulated in Latin and many vernacular textual traditions. It is followed by links to manuscripts of Muscio or derivative texts that have thus far become freely accessible on the Internet. In my several publications discussing Muscio's text (as well as other medieval works on women's medicine), I have always been concerned to assess the gender of the texts' (and images') likely audiences. This issue is addressed at greatest length in my 2008 book, Making Women's Medicine Masculine. Aside from several of the known copies of the Middle English Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing and the Middle English Sickness of Women (Version 2), there is no evidence that an extant copy was plausibly made for the direct use of women.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Ginecologia, obstetrícia i cosmètica
Bibliografia
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/7858536/Monica_H._Green_Cl ...
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