From a Master to a Laywoman: A Feminine Manual of Self-Help
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Cabré, MontserratEditorial
Universidad de Granada
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2000Referencia bibliográfica
Cabré Pairet, Montserrat. «From a master to a laywoman : a feminine manual of self-help». Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam, 2000, Vol. 20, p. 371-393, https://raco.cat/index.php/Dynamis/article/view/86638.
Abstract
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 defining
lay women’s involvement in maintaining their health.