From a master to a laywoman : a feminine manual of self-help
Cabré i Pairet, Montserrat (Universitat de Barcelona. Centre de Recerca de Dones)
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2000 |
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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 defininglay women's involvement in maintaining their health. |
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Anglès |
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Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
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Dynamis : Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque. Historiam Illustrandam, V. 20 (2000) p. 371-393, ISSN 2340-7948 |
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