Frontmatter -- Contents -- Nate on the Paperback Edition -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Map -- Introduction -- Book on the Conditions of Women -- On Treatments for Women -- On Women's Cosmetics -- Appendix: Compound Medicines Employed in the Trotula Ensemble -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Green here presents the first modern English translation of the so-called standardized Trotula ensemble, a composite form of the texts that was produced in the mid-thirteenth century and circulated widely in learned circles
Analysis
Caregiving
Gender Studies
Health
History
Medicine
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Women's Studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index
Notes
Translated from the Latin with introduction and notes in English
