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Green, Monica H. (ed.), The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine, Filadèlfia, University of Pennsylvania Press (The Middle Ages Series), 2001, xvii + 301 pp.
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- The 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 11th or 12th 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 12th 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, De curis mulierum ("On the Treatments for Women"), does derive from the work of a Salernitan woman healer named Trota. However, the other two texts — (De sinthomatibus mulierum, "On the Conditions of Women", and De ornatu mulierum, "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 13th 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.
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- Medicina - Ginecologia, obstetrícia i cosmètica
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Recensions:
* Vivian Nutton, a Medical History, 47 (2003), 136–137 .
* L. M. Eldredge, a Medium Aevum, Fall 2001 .
Reimpr. de la traducció anglesa (sense el text llatí) a Green (2002), The Trotula: An English ....
Traducció del compendi a l'italià (sense el text llatí) a Green (2009), Trotula: un compendio medievale ....
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