Handlist of Documents Relating to the Mildmay Family
Title | Handlist of Documents Relating to the Mildmay Family PDF eBook |
Author | Family of Mildmay |
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Pages | |
Release | 1971 |
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Genealogical Memoranda relating to the Family of Mildmay
Title | Genealogical Memoranda relating to the Family of Mildmay PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 19 |
Release | 1872 |
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A Guide to Western Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles Relating to South and South East Asia
Title | A Guide to Western Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles Relating to South and South East Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Noel Matthews |
Publisher | London ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Archives |
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Letters of Lord Burghley to Sir Robert Cecil, 1593–8
Title | Letters of Lord Burghley to Sir Robert Cecil, 1593–8 PDF eBook |
Author | William Acres |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2018-02-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1108424554 |
This is a collection of 128 of William Cecil, Lord Burghley's letters to his son Sir Robert Cecil, 1593-8.
The Duke of Norfolk's Deeds at Arundel Castle
Title | The Duke of Norfolk's Deeds at Arundel Castle PDF eBook |
Author | Heather M. Warne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Land titles |
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The Jonson Allusion-book
Title | The Jonson Allusion-book PDF eBook |
Author | Jesse Franklin Bradley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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The Trotula
Title | The Trotula PDF eBook |
Author | David D. Gilmore |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2001-04-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812235894 |
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 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.