Saúde e beleza feminina medieval: os cosméticos para cuidados com o corpo nas obras de Abulcasis e Trotula de Salerno
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2024-06-04
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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This dissertation proposes a comparative analysis between recipes aimed at the production
of cosmetics for health care and female beauty in the Middle Ages. For this, the documentary
corpus is made up of three texts of Arabic and Latin origin, which among the medieval textual
genres, can be classified as fundamentally practical pieces. The first, entitled Treatise on
Pharmacology and Cosmetics: Concerning Perfume, Adornment and Beautification, was
written around the year 1000, in al-andaluz on the Iberian Peninsula, by the physician-surgeon
Abulcasis. The two other pieces, called De Curis Mulierum and De Ornatu Mulierum, are
attributed to the legendary Sapiens Matrona Trotula, written between the 11th and
12th centuries, in the port city of Salerno. These are documents that played an important role in
the consolidation of medieval cosmetology literature, since this knowledge flourished
in Antiquity, and was disseminated, above all, in the medical and literary records
of ancient, Arab and Latin authorities. In these premises, cosmetic practices were based on the
medical theories that guided healthy living at the time, with cosmetics being a viable option for
treating certain women's problems. Constantly associated with the domestic space and the
female figure, the authors were based on the a capite ad calcem conception, that is, they
provided advice for taking care of the body a capite ad calcem, covering the
following parts; hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, face, lips, teeth and gums, the voice, breasts, hands,
feet and, finally, the genitals. The production of cosmetics involved the precise selection of
elements found in nature, according to their inherent properties, as well as specific preparation
techniques and instruments, and considering these processes, they could assume multiple types
and formats. Therefore, the comparison between texts allows us to identify similarities and
differences in themes and parts of the human body that each author considered important to
include in their compilations
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Cosméticos , Saúde feminina , Cuidados , Aparência , Mulheres , Cosmetics , Women's health , Care , Appearance , Women
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LIMA, A. R. Saúde e beleza feminina medieval: os cosméticos para cuidados com o corpo nas obras de Abulcasis e Trotula de Salerno. 2024. 134 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) - Faculdade de História, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2024.