... of the Greek gynaikeia meaning simply “women’s matters” or “women’s affairs.” The new and extremely influential texts redacted in southern Italy in the twelfth century (later to be known as the Trotula texts) were likewise initially headed by such titles as Liber...

... initiated by a marginally literate female practitioner, The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine (Phila­ delphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). For regional studies in social- historical methods, see Michael R. McVaugh, Medicine before the Plague: Practitioners...

....”57 Medical texts address the discomfort of pregnant and postpar- tum women in a proliferation of relics, balms, and recipes for concoctions intended to alleviate pain and discomfort, a genre that demonstrates a wide- spread concern for the expectant mother. The Trotula, for example, a twelfth...

... for scholastic theology by taking on the Trotula tradition and the vast body of female practice subtending it. He was not, however, success- ful: some 126 texts of the Latin Trotula survive, more than three dozen of them copied in England; there was also extensive translation and adaptation...

... H., ed. and trans. The “Trotula”: A Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. xvii, 301 pp. $55.00. Hernández, Francisco. The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández. Edited by Simon Varey. Translated from the Spanish...