@article{10902/1897, year = {2000}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/1897}, abstract = {This article analyzes master Joan’s Tròtula, a late fourteenth-century Catalan text on women’s health addressed to an infanta of Aragon which survives in one late fourteenth-century manuscript. It presents a hypothesis regarding its genre, its composition and use at the Catalan-Aragonese Court, and its later fortuna. It considers how Master Joan inscribed in the text a conception of women’s medical needs, while also defininglay women’s involvement in maintaining their health.}, publisher = {Universidad de Granada-}, publisher = {Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona-}, publisher = {Universidad Miguel Hernández-}, publisher = {Universidad de Cantabria}, publisher = {Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam, 2000, 20, 371-393}, title = {From a master to a laywoman : a feminine manual of self-help}, author = {Cabré i Pairet, Montserrat}, }