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Medical authority and Englishwomen's herbal texts, 1550-1650 / Rebecca Laroche.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR113 .L36 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laroche, Rebecca.
- Series:
- Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- English prose literature--Women authors.
- English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Herbals--Great Britain--History.
- Herbals.
- Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Literature and medicine.
- Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Women in medicine--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Women in medicine.
- Women in medicine--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Botany, Medical--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Botany, Medical.
- Botany, Medical--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
- Contents:
- "This manlike worke of herbes" : gender and the English herbal
- Inscriptions in herbal texts and the location of medical authority
- Gentlewomen's herbal readings and the absent-present physicians
- Isabella Whitney's herbs : print medical texts and London satire.
- Notes:
- Errata inserted.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780754666783
- 0754666786
- OCLC:
- 327637313
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