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=Secrets of Women (textual genre)=

"Secrets of Women" (Lat. Secreta mulierum) is the common name of a quasi-genre of medieval text. The most famous was written towards the close of the 13th century and is often falsely attributed to Albertus Magnus. Other texts with the same or similar titles were either selections from gynaecological works (usually the Trotula) or material on sex differences or generation culled from various natural philosophical traditions. While reflecting no formal sphere of intellectual enquiry, they exhibit a collective mode of thought increasingly common in the Late Middle Ages.