Article ID: CBB000931187

The Sources of Eucharius Rösslin's “Rosegarden for Pregnant Women and Midwives” (1513) (2009)

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Despite the unquestioned historical importance of this work, its textual sources have never been examined in any systematic way. In large part, this seems to have been due to scholars' sense that the text was sui generis, an out of the blue creation that suddenly revived the long-lost obstetrical practices of the ancients. The one source that scholars have always acknowledged for the Rosegarten is the late antique work of Muscio, the Gynaecia (Gynaecology, itself a Latin translation of Soranus's second-century Greek Gynaikeia), from which Rösslin derived the foetus-in-utero figures that are still the most recognizable feature of the work. Yet, as I will show, while it is clear that Rösslin must have consulted at least one independently circulating fragment of Muscio's text that included the foetus-in-utero images, the Rosegarten owes nothing at all to the full text of the Latin Gynaecia.

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Authors & Contributors
Read, Kirk D.
Whiteley, Rebecca
Steinke, Hubert
Schleiner, Winfried
Rösslin, Eucharius
Roeslin, Eucharius
Concepts
Medicine
Obstetrics and pregnancy
Nurse midwives
Childbirth
Human body
Medicine and gender
Time Periods
16th century
Renaissance
17th century
15th century
Medieval
18th century
Places
France
England
Italy
Germany
Zurich (Switzerland)
Europe
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