Sara de Sancto Aegidio

Sara de Sancto Aegidio (also known as Sara of St. Gilles; died after 1326) was a French physician.[1]

Sara of Sancto Aegidio lived in Marseille, France.[1] She was Jewish,[2] the daughter of Davin and the widow of a physician named Avraham.[1][3] Her practice and medical knowledge is known through a contract with her student, Salvetus de Burgonoro of Salon de Provence, which is dated August 28, 1326.[1] The contract states that Sara de Sancto Aegidio was to instruct him in medicine for seven months, and also provide him with lodging and clothing.[1] In return, Sara de Sancto Aegidio's pupil was to give her any earnings that he might receive during his apprenticeship.[1] This document is the earliest and best known example of this type of teacher-student contract.[4]

References
  1. Tallan, Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry, Cheryl (2003). The JPS guide to Jewish women : 600 B.C.E.-1900 C.E. (1st ed.). Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society. p. 86. ISBN 0827607520.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. York, Laura (2002). "Sarah of St. Gilles (fl. 1326)". In Commire, Anne (ed.). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Waterford, Connecticut: Yorkin Publications. p. 800. ISBN 0-7876-4074-3.
  3. Advocate: America's Jewish Journal. 655. 29 January 1921.
  4. Shatzmiller, Joseph (1994). Jews, medicine, and Medieval society. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. p. 24. ISBN 0520080599.

Further reading
  • LaBarge, Margaret (1986). A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.


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