Trota of Salerno (also spelled Trocta) was a medical practitioner and writer in the southern Italian coastal town of Salerno who lived in the early or middle decades of the 12th century. Her fame spread as far as France and England in the 12th and 13th centuries. A Latin text that gathered some of her therapies (and recounted a cure she had performed) was incorporated into an ensemble of treatises on women's medicine that came to be known as the Trotula, "the little book [called] 'Trotula'". Gradually, readers became unaware that this was the work of three different authors. They were also unaware of name of the historical writer, which was "Trota" and not "Trotula". The latter was thenceforth misunderstood as the author of the whole compendium. These misconceptions about the author of Trotula contributed to the erasure or modification of her name, gender, level of education, medical knowledge, or the time period in which the texts were written; this trend often resulted from the biases of later scholars. Trota's authentic work (including a collection of her cures, known as the Practical Medicine According to Trota) was forgotten until it was rediscovered in the late 20th century.
derives from a historic female figure, TrotaofSalerno, a physician and medical writer who was associated with one of the three texts. However, "Trotula"...
Salernitana, open to women like TrotaofSalerno and Mercuriade also, considered the most ancient medical institution of the European West, reached its...
manuscripts by Trota can be found in European libraries today. Additional women physicians who attended this school became known as the "Women ofSalerno", or the...
Margaret W. Rossiter. Rossiter provides several examples of this effect. Trotula (TrotaofSalerno), a 12th-century Italian woman physician, wrote books...
were almost certainly known at the royal court of King Henry II of England. Virtually nothing is known of her life; both her given name and its geographical...
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also beyond the Alps. These women included: TrotaofSalerno – The most famous of the women ofSalerno, Trota is believed to have lived during the 11th...
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group of women consisted of Abella, TrotaofSalerno, Mercuriade, Rebecca de Guarna, Maria Incarnata, and Constance Calenda. The women ofSalerno not only...
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