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- catalog abstract ""This study comprises a critical edition, using all the five extant manuscripts of the most popular of the Middle English gynaecological texts deriving from the Latin Trotula-text. The Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing is a short fifteenth-century prose treatise which claims to be translated from Latin texts (or Latin and French) that derive ultimately from the Greek. It has a unique importance as it was written apparently 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 in the Prologue where the writer explains that he has translated this text because literate women are more likely to read English than any other language and can then pass on the information it contains to illiterate women. The text is a translation, no doubt by a man rather than a woman, but one of his ultimate sources was a text attributed to 'Trotula', in the Middle Ages believed to be the name of a midwife or gynaecologist from Salerno, who wrote extensively on women's ailments, childbirth and beauty care. Recent work shows that such a woman, probably named Trota, did exist and that she did write a gynaecological treatise, the Trotula or 'little Trota', which became closely associated with two other texts not by her. All three however became very popular and were widely disseminated under her name."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12504106.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""This study comprises a critical edition, using all the five extant manuscripts of the most popular of the Middle English gynaecological texts deriving from the Latin Trotula-text. The Knowing of Woman's Kind in Childing is a short fifteenth-century prose treatise which claims to be translated from Latin texts (or Latin and French) that derive ultimately from the Greek. It has a unique importance as it was written apparently 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 in the Prologue where the writer explains that he has translated this text because literate women are more likely to read English than any other language and can then pass on the information it contains to illiterate women. The text is a translation, no doubt by a man rather than a woman, but one of his ultimate sources was a text attributed to 'Trotula', in the Middle Ages believed to be the name of a midwife or gynaecologist from Salerno, who wrote extensively on women's ailments, childbirth and beauty care. Recent work shows that such a woman, probably named Trota, did exist and that she did write a gynaecological treatise, the Trotula or 'little Trota', which became closely associated with two other texts not by her. All three however became very popular and were widely disseminated under her name."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. General Introduction -- The Text and Its Readers -- The Sources -- 2. The Manuscripts -- Manuscripts of the Middle English Texts -- Manuscripts of the French and Latin Sources -- 3. Textual Introduction -- Oxford Bodley MS Douce 37 and Cambridge University Library MS Ii. 6. 33 -- Oxford MS Bodley 483 -- British Library MS Sloane 421A and MS Additional 12195.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xii, 169 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Knowing of woman's kind in childing.".
- catalog identifier "2503510736 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Knowing of woman's kind in childing.".
- catalog isPartOf "Medieval women ; 4".
- catalog isPartOf "Medieval women--texts and contexts ; 4.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engenm".
- catalog publisher "Turnhout : Brepols,".
- catalog relation "Knowing of woman's kind in childing.".
- catalog subject "2002 E-124".
- catalog subject "618.20902 21".
- catalog subject "Gynecology Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "History of Medicine.".
- catalog subject "History, Medieval".
- catalog subject "Labor, Obstetric.".
- catalog subject "Medicine, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "Menstruation Disturbances.".
- catalog subject "Obstetrics Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Pregnancy Complications.".
- catalog subject "Prenatal Care.".
- catalog subject "RG61 .K66 2001".
- catalog subject "Trotula.".
- catalog subject "WZ 294 K73 2001".
- catalog subject "Women Health and hygiene Early works to 1800.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. General Introduction -- The Text and Its Readers -- The Sources -- 2. The Manuscripts -- Manuscripts of the Middle English Texts -- Manuscripts of the French and Latin Sources -- 3. Textual Introduction -- Oxford Bodley MS Douce 37 and Cambridge University Library MS Ii. 6. 33 -- Oxford MS Bodley 483 -- British Library MS Sloane 421A and MS Additional 12195.".
- catalog title "The knowing of woman's kind in childing : a Middle English version of material derived from the Trotula and other sources / edited by Alexandra Barratt.".
- catalog type "Early works. fast".
- catalog type "text".