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The first study to analyze print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender and to present original findings to do with early modern women's ownership of these herbals, "Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts" also looks at reasons and contexts behind early modern female writers claiming herbal practice. Author Rebecca Laroche first establishes cultural backdrops in the gendering of medical authority that takes place in the herbals and the regular ownership of these herbals by women. She then examines women's engagements with herbal texts in life writings and poetry and asks how these moments represent and engage medical authority. In ultimately demonstrating how female writers variously take on women's herbal medical practices, Laroche reveals the broad range of literary potentials within the historical category of women's medicine.

History of human medicine --- Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Great Britain --- Botany, Medical --- English prose literature --- Herbals --- Literature and medicine --- Women in medicine --- 094:58 --- 316.371 "15" --- Medicine --- Medicine and literature --- Botanical literature --- Botany --- Herbs --- Medicinal plants --- Plants, Useful --- Medical botany --- Medical sciences --- Materia medica, Vegetable --- Medical botanists --- 316.371 "15" Gender--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- Gender--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- 094:58 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Botany --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Botany --- History --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Women authors