The Trotula
Subtitle: a medieval compendium of women's medicine
By: edited and translated by Monica H. Green.
Contributors: Green, Monica Helen.
Series: The Middle Ages series; The Middle Ages series; Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Gynecology -- Early works to 1800.; Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Italy -- Salerno -- History.; Women -- Health and hygiene -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine, Medieval.; Gynecology -- history -- Italy.; History of Medicine, Medieval -- Italy.; Obstetrics -- history -- Italy.; Women's Health -- Italy.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Description: "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 eleventh- or twelfth-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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-268) and indexes.