Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts, 1550–1650
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Author_Rebecca Laroche
botanicum
Category=DSB
Cushing Memorial Library
Dodoens
early
early modern medicine
elizabeth
Elizabeth Freke
English Herbal
Englishwomen's Herbal Texts
Englishwomen’s Herbal Texts
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female authorship studies
gender and herbal knowledge transmission
gendered medical practice
Gerard's Herball
Gerard’s Herball
Grace Mildmay
henry
Herbal Knowledge
Herbal Text
Herbal Tradition
Hoby's Diary
Hoby’s Diary
isham
knowledge
Lady Grace Mildmay
Lady Hoby
Lady Margaret Hoby
Lady Mildmay
Licensed Medical Authority
literary medical analysis
lyte
Margaret Hoby
Margaret Hoby's Diary
Margaret Hoby’s Diary
Paradisus Terrestris
Print Medical Texts
Recipe Collections
rembert
Sole Paradisus Terrestris
Sweet Nosgay
theatrum
Theatrum Botanicum
vernacular herbals
women's health history
Women's Recipe Books
Women’s Recipe Books
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- ISBN 9780754666783
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first study to analyze print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender and to present original findings to do with early modern women's ownership of these herbals, Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts also looks at reasons and contexts behind early modern female writers claiming herbal practice. Author Rebecca Laroche first establishes cultural backdrops in the gendering of medical authority that takes place in the herbals and the regular ownership of these herbals by women. She then examines women's engagements with herbal texts in life writings and poetry and asks how these moments represent and engage medical authority. In ultimately demonstrating how female writers variously take on women's herbal medical practices, Laroche reveals the broad range of literary potentials within the historical category of women's medicine.
Rebecca Laroche is Associate Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA.
