Women and Health - Teaching Medieval Women

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SHP UNEARTHED2 webinar: Gardening and Medicine

Thumbnail depicting medieval herbal manuscript with blocks of handwritten text and two illustrations of plants. The thumbnail also includes the logos of School History Project and YouTube.

A free webinar by Schools History Project on the history of gardening and medicine. Useful for anyone teaching or studying a breadth-study History of Medicine module at GCSE History.

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Herbal Treatise

Cropped photograph of a section of a medieval herbal with an illustration depicting a plant.

A factsheet on a late medieval medical treatise on plants.

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Disease Woman

A factsheet on the Disease Woman, a popular medieval diagram used to depict a woman's body.

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Trotula

Manuscript illustration of Trota of Salerno.

A factsheet concerning the Trotula, a medieval medical treatise attributed to Trota of Salerno, a twelfth-century female physician.

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Birthing Girdle

A factsheet on birthing girdles: what they were and what they were used for.