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Women's Secrets: A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus' De Secretis Mulierum with Commentaries

Women's Secrets: A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus' De Secretis Mulierum with Commentaries

Paperback

Series: Suny Medieval Studies

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 0791411443
ISBN13: 9780791411445
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Oct 14 1992
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.12
Language: English

Women's Secrets provides the first modern translation of the notorious treatise De secretis mulierum, popular throughout the late middle ages and into modern times. The Secrets deals with human reproduction and was written to instruct celibate medieval monks on the facts of life and some of the ways of the universe. However, the book had a much more far-reaching influence. Lemay shows how its message that women were evil, lascivious creatures built on the misogyny of the work's Aristotelian sources and laid the groundwork for serious persecution of women.

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