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Record Number:
6086
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Cabré , Montserrat.
Contributor(s):
Title:
From a Master to a Laywoman: A Feminine Manual of Self-Help
Source:
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam 20, ( 2000): Pages 371 - 393.
Description:
Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
:
Beauty
Catalan Literature
Cosmetics
Dedicatees and Dedications
Joan, Master, Physician and Author- Trotula
Medicine
Physicians
Princesses
Sources
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Iberia
Century:
14
Primary Evidence:
Manuscript; Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, 3356, fols. 1r- 33v. "Trotula" compiled by Mestre Joan. Written in Catalan by three scribes in the late fourteenth century.
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Abstract:
This article analyzes master Joan’s Tròtula, a late fourteenth-century Catalan text on women’s health addressed to an infanta of Aragon which survives in one late fourteenth-century manuscript. It presents a hypothesis regarding its genre, its composition and use at the Catalan-Aragonese Court, and its later fortuna. It considers how Master Joan inscribed in the text a conception of women’s medical needs, while also defining lay women’s involvement in maintaining their health.
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Author's Affiliation:
Universitat de Barcelona and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Email: mcabre@bicat.csic.es
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2000.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
02119536