MedCat

Access to the MedCat database.

Archives consulted | For your information | About the records | How to cite | Legal notice

Id MedCat 

Archival sources | People

bib30078 (18 / maig / 2024)

Darrera modificació: 2022-01-30
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat

Ferragud, Carmel - Roca, Guillem, "El cos de la dona maltractada sota l'escrutini mèdic: els casos de València i Lleida en la Baixa Edat Mitjana", Scriptia, 16 [=Violències, marginalitats i dones en la Corona d'Aragó: una aproximació documental i literària // Cultura catalana spazio europeo] (2020), 320-342.

Resum
Based on the rich judicial sources preserved in the archives from the cities of Valencia and Lleida, we have undertaken a study about the intervention of medical practitioners as healers and experts in the courts of law to determine the nature and gravity of the injuries caused by different means of violence against women: rape, domestic abuse, torture, common assault. We examine the legislation and we compare it with the documentation, namely the testimonies of people who were brought to trial. Yet, we thoroughly analyse the role of the experts, how the judges used the information received from them, the limits of their contribution and the controversy they used to arouse. These situations took place in a setting where women suffered lots of injuries to which they could not defend, and those were hardly ever reported. In brief, women were discriminated by the law.
Matèries
Història de la medicina
Dones
Dret - Processos
URL
https:/​/​ojs.uv.es/​index.php/​scripta/​article/​view/​19233
What are the images?

The small images on the decorative ribbon correspond, from left to right, to the following documents: 1. James II orders the settlement of neighborhood disputes over an estate of the royal doctor Arnau de Vilanova in the city of Valencia. 1298 (ACA); 2. Contract between Guglielmo Neri de Santo Martino, a surgeon from Pisa, and the physician-surgeon from Majorca Pere Saflor, bachelor of medicine, to practise medicine and surgery under the latter’s direction, 1356 (ACM); 3. Valuation of the workshop of Guillem Metge, an apothecary from Barcelona, made by the apothecaries Miquel Tosell, Berenguer Duran and Vicenç Bonanat, for its sale to Llorenç Bassa, a fellow apothecary, 1364 (AHPB); 4. Peter III the Ceremonious regularizes the legal situation of Esteró, a Jewish female doctor from Vilafranca del Penedès, granting her an extraordinary license to practice medicine. 1384 (ACA); 5. Power of attorney of Margarida de Tornerons, a doctor in Prats de Molló and Vic, in order to recover the goods withheld from her by a third party in Vic, 1401 (ABEV); 6. Doctorate and teaching license of Narcís Solà, bachelor of medicine, issued by Bernat de Casaldòvol, doctor of medicine and chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine in Barcelona, 1526 (AHCB); and 7. Partnership between Joan Llunes and Joan Francesc Llunes, father and son, and Lluís Gual, the former’s son-in-law, surgeons of Caldes de Montbui, in order to practise the profession, 1579 (AHCB).