Beautiful Bodies

Cabré, Montserrat

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“…Véase Frugoni (1992 La asociación de la fealdad con la falta de virtudes y maldad fue ampliamente compartida en el Medioevo, época en la que lo bello era entendido como un valor, como algo bueno y verdadero, mientras que lo feo era percibido como una corrupción de la Naturaleza y, por ende, era defectuoso, malo e incluso, demoníaco. Como sostiene Montserrat Cabré (2010): "Western cultures conceived beauty as the aesthetic aspect of pleasure and the good; in contrast, ugliness embodied aversion but also wickedness" (p.…”

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Suplantaciones de mujeres en la narrativa hispanohebrea: Misoginia y fealdad

Lorca

2018

Cuad.jud.

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Los estudios sobre las representaciones femeninas en la literatura medieval suelen basarse en dos estereotipos: las mujeres que cumplen con el rol modélico y aquellas que encarnan diversos vicios, dando cuenta de la corriente misógina de la época. La presente investigación, centrada en el ámbito hispanohebreo, busca analizar las suplantaciones ideadas y realizadas por mujeres en dos textos narrativos del siglo XIII, discutiendo cómo se configuran los personajes femeninos, si acaso estos engaños refuerzan mecanismos misóginos y la forma en que se construyen otros estereotipos en torno a las mujeres, específicamente, el de las mujeres feas, velludas y bestiales

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Suplantaciones de mujeres en la narrativa hispanohebrea: Misoginia y fealdad

Lorca

2018

Cuad.jud.

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Female Authority in Translation

Cabré¹

2022

Osiris

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This article addresses the entangled histories of translation and gendered medical authority in medieval Western Europe, exploring the vernacularization of medicine from the perspective of Catalan literature. Instead of focusing on authorship or on the authenticity of the medieval attributions, it explores how women were recognized as a source of medical knowledge and how female personal names were employed as a means of conveying notions of authority on women's health. Latin medicine created its own celebrity around the acclaimed healer Trota of Salerno, although her original name was almost written out of the historical record in favor of Trotula and the label Trotula that flourished after her name. I study a wealth of traces showing that late medieval Catalan medicine retained a notion of female authority on women's health through the use of her name and that both Trota and Trotula came to authorize a significant part of medieval women's medicine in Catalan.While checking a Catalan translation of a healthcare treatise with its Latin source, an anonymous mid-fifteenth-century editor noticed a difference between the two renderings. It was a small, two-letter deviation, but it was perceived to be important enough to merit inserting a comment in the text, right after the puzzling word:And as it happened, Trotula was called in -the Latin says Trota-as a master of the operation that was about to be performed on a girl suffering from this ailment, and she was astonished. 1

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Household Medicine for a Renaissance Court

Barker

Strocchia

2020

Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550

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Household recipe books were the most prevalent form of women’s authoritative medical writing in Renaissance Europe. Among the most significant female-authored collections from fifteenth-century Italy was that of Caterina Sforza (1463-1509), Countess of Imola and Forlì. Two recently discovered manuscripts shed new light on her creative praxis and the practical knowledge she collected, developed, and tested. We argue that Caterina’s vast miscellany of ‘secrets’ must be read intentionally within the context of a household economy writ large, simultaneously serving the health needs and political objectives of a Renaissance court. These discoveries highlight the authority of experiential knowledge within the domestic realm and beyond. Since the manuscripts were subjected to censorship, we interrogate the later reclassification of some of Caterina’s authoritative knowledge as heterodox.

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Beautiful Bodies

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Suplantaciones de mujeres en la narrativa hispanohebrea: Misoginia y fealdad

Suplantaciones de mujeres en la narrativa hispanohebrea: Misoginia y fealdad

Female Authority in Translation

Household Medicine for a Renaissance Court

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