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Darrera modificació: 2018-08-31
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Green, Monica H., "Reconstructing the oeuvre of Trota of Salerno", dins: Jacquart, Danielle - Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino (eds.), La Scuola medica salernitana: gli autori e i testi, Florència, SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo (Edizione nazionale «La Scuola medica salernitana», 1), 2007, pp. 183-233.
- Resum
- Picking up from where John F. Benton left off in his 1985 study announcing the discovery of the Practica of Trota of Salerno, the present investigation brings together all known evidence for the writings and precepts of this early 12th-century Salernitan healer, for whom we have no other contemporary evidence beyond these writings themselves. Using the evidence of the Practica secundum Trotam (“Practical Medicine According to Trota”) as well as the compendium De egritudinum curatione (a collection of excerpts from the works of seven Salernitan “masters,” including Trota) and the De curis mulierum (“On Treatments for Women”) and even an Anglo-Norman text which purports to record the teachings of Trota, I argue that collation of this evidence shows that Trota's oeuvre was probably much larger than previously suspected. Trota's historicity was already established by Benton, and she can now be clearly distinguished from the textual fiction “Trotula,” which is in reality just the title of an ensemble of the De curis mulierum and two other, unrelated texts of likely male authorship. The present study offers further circumstantial evidence about the historic Trota, suggesting that it is possible to place her in the early 12th century. She was to some extent aware of and in dialogue with fellow male practitioners in Salerno, but she remained peripheral to the general trends toward theory and sophisticated pharmacopeia that characterized the work of her male contemporaries. The study includes editions and translations of excerpts of Trota's authentic works and other testimonia.
- Matèries
- Dones
Medicina - Ginecologia, obstetrícia i cosmètica
Història de la medicina
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/4559600/Monica_H._Green_Re ...
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