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History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern Europe

by Jacques Gelis
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780745618401
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Polity Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 344
  • Original Price: GBP 24.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised
  • Item Weight: 468 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Customs & Traditions and Social History

Highly detailed and clearly written, this book is the first full-length study of the complex system of practices, beliefs and taboos which surrounded conception and childbirth in early modern Europe.

In a rich and scholarly study, Jacques Gélis reconstructs the activities and attitudes of the midwives and mothers, and the sufferings they had to endure. He continues with an examination of the role of the Church, the herbalist and the mineral world (touchstones and talisman) in the explanation of the mysteries of procreation.

Jacques Gélis is Maitre-Assistant in History at the University of Paris VIII.

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