Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 46051
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  • Title: Jacoba Felicie: A Female Physician on Trial
  • Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader.  Edited by Eugene Smelyansky.  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 229 - 233.
  • Description: The faculty of medicine at the University of Paris brought suit against Jacoba Felicie for practicing without the requisite formal medical training. The text provides information about her treatments and testimony from her patients.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Authority Felicie de Almania, Jacoba, a Healer Healers and Healing Medicine Physicians Trials
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 14
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  • Related Resources: The text is from Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook, trans. Emilie Amt (Routledge, 1993), pp. 108-12.
  • Author's Affiliation: Washington State University [Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow]
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  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781487506124 (hbk); 9781487524128 (pbk); 9781487533342 (ePub); 9781487533335 (PDF)