The Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing: A Middle English Trotula-Text (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts) by A Barratt - 2002-03-04

Brepols Publishers. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2002. Hardcover. 2503510736 . Previous owner signature on front endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 169 pp; Medieval Women: Texts And Contexts .

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Brepols Publishers, 2002. Hardcover. New. 01 edition. 169 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches.

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Turnhout Brepols 2002. Hardback, XII+169 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503510736. This study comprises a critical edition, using all the five extant MSS, of the most popular of the Middle English gynaecological texts deriving from the Latin Trotula-text. This study comprises a critical edition, using all the five extant MSS, of the most popular of the Middle English gynaecological texts deriving from the Latin Trotula-text. The Knowing of Women's Kind in Childing is a short fifteenth-century prose treatise which claims to be translated from Latin texts (or Latin and French, according to some manuscripts) that derive ultimately from the Greek. It has a unique importance as it was written by a woman, for a female audience, and on the subject of women. The text considers women's physical constitution, what makes them different from men (primarily the possession of a womb) and, in particular, the three types of problem that the womb causes. That it was written for a female audience is made explicit… Read More

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