WOMAN IN SCIENCE – Trotula De Ruggero

Trotula De Ruggero

University education was available to some women during the medieval period in Europe. The Italian physician, Trotula di Ruggiero, is supposed to have held a chair at the School of Salerno in the eleventh century, where she taught many noble Italian women, a group sometimes referred to as the “ladies of Salerno”.  Several influential texts on women’s medicine, dealing with obstetrics and gynecology, among other topics, are also often attributed to Trotula.