Dame Trot and her Progeny

Author / Editor
Talbot, C. H.

Title
Dame Trot and her Progeny

Published
Essays and Studies 25 (1972): 1-15.

Description
Provides historical evidence that females practiced medicine in medieval Europe, identifying several examples of their experience and tribulations, and presenting them as background to Chaucer's "Trotula" (WBP 3.677).

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Background and General Criticism