...”: The Transformation of Gynecological Literature in the Later Middle Ages Monica H. Green Duke University Durham, North Carolina Writing about...

... and exclusion in the medieval and the early modern eras. Monica Green’s essay looks at medical manuscripts to trace medieval uses of gynecological texts. From the thirteenth century onward, writings on gynecology were assimilated into the tradition of speculative nat...

.... Trent sought out keystone books in many fields of medicine when building his collection. Some of those subject areas have subsequently been developed in greater depth, for example, human anatomical atlases, military surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and specific author collec- tions...

...- sance Quarterly 47, no. 1 (1994): 1 – 33, 15 – 21; and Park, Secrets of Women, 215. 6 See for instance, Monica H. Green, Making Women’s Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-­modern Gynecology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 252, 267 – 73; Elaine Hobby...

... in which Mary gives birth and what Emma Maggie Solberg has called her onstage post-­partum gynecological exam, the plays do just the opposite: they titillate the audience by allowing them to peer into a place of secret knowledge, giving spectators a back-­stage view a behind-­ the-s­cenes glimpse...

... inscription, too damaged for full legibility, appears to be a measure of Christ that instructs the votary to say the conventional five Paternosters, five Aves, and one Creed “in the worshypp of hym that thys mesure ys.” 41 Further in support of their distinctive gynecological application, both rolls...

... not keep within insular bounds, for such insular emphasis is peculiarly the product of Victorian attitudes as enshrined by Leslie Stephen, Virginia’s father, in his Dictionary of National Biography.7 400  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 36.2 / 2006 University and gynecology...

...: Athlone Press, and a more recent discussion in Maaike Van der Lugt, Le ver, le démon, et la vierge: Les theories médiévales de la génération extraordinaire (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, This sequence of fetal development was also included in a popu- lar gynecological tract...