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The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine (The Middle Ages Series)

Nov 2nd, 2011 |
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// // 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

The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine (The Middle Ages Series)

Nov 2nd, 2011 |
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// // 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