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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 572
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Author: Dino S. Cervigni
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 572
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David D. Gilmore
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2001-04-16
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0812235894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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. Arguing that these texts can be understood only within the intellectual and social context that produced them, Green analyzes them against the background of historical gynecological literature as well as current knowledge about women's lives in twelfth-century southern Italy. She examines the history and composition of the three works and introduces the reader to the medical culture of medieval Salerno from which they emerged. Among her findings is that the second of the three texts, "On the Treatments for Women," does derive from the work of a Salernitan woman healer named Trota. However, the other two texts—"On the Conditions of Women" and "On Women's Cosmetics"—are probably of male authorship, a fact indicating the complex gender relations surrounding the production and use of knowledge about the female body. Through an exhaustive study of the extant manuscripts of the Trotula, Green presents a critical edition 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. The facing-page complete English translation makes the work accessible to a broad audience of readers interested in medieval history, women's studies, and premodern systems of medical thought and practice.
Author: Freidhelm Nicolin
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 688
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Brian Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1108477690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.
Author: Kurt Steinhauer
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 588
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Odile Dupont
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2014-08-25
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 3110317028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe IFLA Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group is dedicated to libraries serving as places of dialogue between cultures through a better knowledge of religions. This book based on experiences of libraries serving interreligious dialogue, presents themes like library tools serving dialogue between cultures, collections dialoguing, children and young adults dialoguing beyond borders, story telling as dialog, librarians serving interreligious dialogue.
Author: Paolo Delogu
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 2002-09-26
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the sources, methods and theories most used by historians, this book explores the origins of the idea of the 'middle ages' and its development in Renaissance and modern European historical discourse, the problem of periodisation and the principal themes of modern historiography.