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Darrera modificació: 2021-03-16
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Desing, Matthew V., "Gender and medicine in the Libro de Apolonio: master Tarsiana's electuaries and curative spices", La corónica, 48/2 (2020), 129-152.
- Resum
- This article examines the conjunction of integrated health and women's involvement in medicine within the context of the thirteenth-century clerical romance, the Libro de Apolonio. In particular, it interrogates a passage in which the poet portrays Tarsiana, the daughter of the eponymous protagonist, as proposing a medicinal cure. It contends that Tarsiana's action should be interpreted positively, as would be consistent with the poet's portrayal of Tarsiana as a learned agent of salvation, and also with the elision of physical and spiritual healing throughout mester de clerecía poetry. While the later Middle Ages would exclude women from formal medicinal practice, contemporary scholars should not allow that later development to cloud perceptions of women and healing in earlier periods. This view allows us to appreciate the way that the anonymous mester de clerecía poet constructs Tarsiana as a maestra, a learned woman skilled in many arts, including spiritual and physical healing.
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Medicina - Farmacologia
- URL
- https://muse.jhu.edu/article/776124
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