Obstetrical and Gynecological Texts in Middle English
- Author / Editor
- Green, Monica H.
Obstetrical and Gynecological Texts in Middle English
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992): 53-88.
- Description
- Tallies eleven texts in thirty-three manuscripts, arranged and described under three headings: translations of the Latin "Trotula" (cited in WBP), versions of "The Sekenesse of Women," and related texts. Explores the readership of these texts and appends an annotated transcription of "The Nature of Women," an abbreviated Midlands-dialect translation of a Latin adaptation of Muscio's Gynaecia. Reprinted in Monica H. Green, Women's Healthcare in the Medieval West (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2000), essay no. 4.
- Alternative Title
- Women's Healthcare in the Medieval West.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale