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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. Illustrations: Table: 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. Related Resources: 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

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