Monica H. Green, “Trota of Salerno (and the Trotula),” Dictionary of Medical Biography, ed. William F. Bynum and Helen Bynum, 5 vols. (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2006), vol. 5, pp. 1235-1237 (original) (raw)

Citation: Monica H. Green, “Trota of Salerno (and the Trotula),” Dictionary of Medical Biography, ed. William F. Bynum and Helen Bynum, 5 vols. (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2006), vol. 5, pp. 1235-1237. This is a short summary that laid out what was known at the time about the historic Salernitan medical practitioner Trota, explaining her oblique relationship to the so-called 'Trotula' treatises that took on a diminutive form of her name as a title. For fuller details on Trota, see these later studies: “Reconstructing the Oeuvre of Trota of Salerno,” in La Scuola medica Salernitana: Gli autori e i testi, ed. Danielle Jacquart and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Edizione Nazionale ‘La Scuola medica Salernitana’, 1 (Florence: SISMEL/Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007), 183-233; and chapter 1 of her book, Making Women’s Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Also, my periodically updated "cheat sheet", "Who/What is 'Trotula'?", has the key details and bibliography. If you would like a copy of this 2006 encyclopedia entry for reference purposes, please feel free to write me: monica.h.green@gmail.com.