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Question

In a text from this city, a piece of bread with a sator square inscribed on it is prescribed as a treatment for labor. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this city, the home of Trota and an early school that offered training for midwives. Sikelgaita, the wife of Robert Guiscard (“ro-BAIR geese-CAR”), may have influenced her husband’s decision to conquer this city, her former home.

ANSWER: Salerno [or Salierno]

[10m] Schola Medica Salernitana’s zenith was reached during the reign of these Germanic people. These people name a confederation that defeated Frederick Barbarossa at the Battle of Legnano.

ANSWER: Lombards [or Longobards; or Langobards, or Langobardi]

[10e] As depicted on the cover of Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine, Robert, the Duke of this region, legendarily refused treatment at Salerno, only for his wife to die when she sucked the poison from him. William the Conqueror served as duke of this region prior to his invasion of England.

ANSWER: Normandy [or Normandie]

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