The following piece was produced for the Bader College course HIST 402: Sex & Death in the Middle Ages. During the Middle Ages, an insidious aspect of communal identity reared its ugly head as a result of religious groupthink. Why is it that every historical epoch believes that it has reached the apex of development?…
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The Trotula Uncovered: Changing the View of Women’s Medicine Forever
Tecoya Warner Medicine: the healer, remedy, cure, treatment…the therapeutic heavenly relief of pain. In whatever way the term is coined, medicine is rooted in the central concept of an ease of ailment. Throughout centuries of human existence, medicine took many forms that are more evident now than ever before through the plethora of practices that…
The Trotula: On the Conditions of Women
Cassi Lawson. Gynaecological conditions do not warrant sympathy; after all, women are inferior to men. Shouldn’t they get what they deserve? Women are frigid and humid, whereas men have been gifted the stronger qualities – heat and dryness. The blame for women’s conditions should be placed on themselves, not on an external force. Since women…