IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 633: Gender, Authority, and Expertise in Medicine of the Iberian Peninsula
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | American Association of Research Historians of Medieval Spain |
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| Organiser: | Iona McCleery, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elena Woodacre, Department of History, University of Winchester |
| Paper 633-a | 'Listen and know on the retention of menstrual blood': Writing in Hebrew on Female Physiology and Disease in Christian Castile at the Turn of the 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Medicine, Women's Studies |
| Paper 633-b | Transforming Trota into Trotula: Female Authority and Female Authorship in Catalan Medical Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine, Women's Studies |
| Paper 633-c | Health, Diet, and Masculinity: The Male 'Patient' in Late Medieval Portugal (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Medicine |
| Abstract | This session will draw on current research to investigate issues of the transmission of knowledge and expertise of the human body and its medical treatment across the Iberian Peninsula between c. 1200 and c. 1500. Papers range from an analysis of Arabic, Hebrew and Latin traditions of gynaecology circulating in Castile and Provence, through to neglected aspects of male dietary health and wound treatment in Portuguese chronicles, miracle stories and medical writings, via an investigation of how female authority was represented in Catalan medical texts attributed to the famous female practitioner Trota or entitled Trotula. |