The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine

Book Overview

The Trotula was the most influential compendium of 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 the first English translation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812218086
• ISBN13: 9780812218084
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine

Extremely helpful. I was researching medieval OB/Gyn Care and this book was a great source of information.