English Birth Girdles

Author : Mary Morse
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501513909

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English Birth Girdles by Mary Morse Pdf

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the "girdle relics" of the Virgin Mary and other saints loaned to queens and noblewomen, extending childbirth protection to women of all classes. This book examines the texts and images of nine English birth girdles produced between the reigns of Richard II and Henry VIII. Cultural artifacts of lay devotion within the birthing chamber, the birth girdles offered the solace and promise of faith to the parturient woman and her attendants amid religious dissent, political upheaval, recurring epidemics, and the onset of print.

Author : Mary Morse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1501518143

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English Birth Girdles by Mary Morse Pdf

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the "girdle relics" of the Virgin Mary and other saints loaned to queens and noblewomen, extending childbirth protection to women of all classes. This book examines the texts and images of nine English birth girdles produced between the reigns of Richard II and Henry VIII. Cultural artifacts of lay devotion within the birthing chamber, the birth girdles offered the solace and promise of faith to the parturient woman and her attendants amid religious dissent, political upheaval, recurring epidemics, and the onset of print. Mary Morse specializes in medieval women's devotional and childbirth practices. She is Professor Emerita of English and past director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Rider University.

Author : Mary Morse
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501514005

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English Birth Girdles by Mary Morse Pdf

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the "girdle relics" of the Virgin Mary and other saints loaned to queens and noblewomen, extending childbirth protection to women of all classes. This book examines the texts and images of nine English birth girdles produced between the reigns of Richard II and Henry VIII. Cultural artifacts of lay devotion within the birthing chamber, the birth girdles offered the solace and promise of faith to the parturient woman and her attendants amid religious dissent, political upheaval, recurring epidemics, and the onset of print.

Author : Simon Horobin,Linne R. Mooney
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781903153536

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Middle English Texts in Transition by Simon Horobin,Linne R. Mooney Pdf

Fresh contributions to the study of medieval manuscripts, texts, and their creators.

Author : Costanza Gislon Dopfel,Alessandra Foscati,Charles Burnett
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Childbirth
ISBN : 2503580556

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Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Premodern World by Costanza Gislon Dopfel,Alessandra Foscati,Charles Burnett Pdf

This volume of contributions from international scholars offers a cross-cultural and multi-period analysis of pregnancy and childbirth traditions in Western and Middle Eastern cultures. The studies focus on the ideas, practices, and visual representations surrounding pregnancy and birth-giving from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance and offer the reader the possibility of observing the perception, representation, and theoretic paradigm of these events in a wide range of cultural contexts. The collection fits within multiple traditions of specialized scholarship, yet its scope suggests a geographically global approach and a new, multicultural methodology that encompasses a wide range of practices, historical periods, and topics. On one hand, it participates in the well-established medical, historical, and iconographic discourse on childbirth and family that has enticed much interest over the last two decades; on the other, its unique thematic structure includes cultures and periods previously ignored in similar collections of essays. The articles span from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and India, and connect the experience of childbirth to the exchanges of knowledge, religious beliefs, and social practices. With its variety of topics and specializations, the volume encourages a global comparative approach to the cultural narrative surrounding the activities and attitudes connected to conception and birth, paying particular attention to material culture, religion, history, and iconography, as well as to the exchange and dispersion of medical knowledge.

Author : Roger E. Stevenson,Judith G. Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199748082

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Human Malformations and Related Anomalies by Roger E. Stevenson,Judith G. Hall Pdf

This widely acclaimed reference work gives a comprehensive survey of all significant human malformations and related anomalies from the perspective of the clinician. The anomalies are organized by anatomical system and presented in a consistent manner, including details of the clinical presentation, epidemiology, embryology, treatment and prevention for each anomaly. When known, the molecular or other pathogenetic basis for the malformation is given. Most anomalies are illustrated by photographs or drawings. Specific malformations are linked to syndromes through the extensive use of differential diagnosis tables. Over a decade has passed since the first edition of this book was published, and the revised edition fully incorporates the advances made in the field during the intervening years.. It reflects new understanding of human developmental biology that has emerged from molecular, cytogenetic, and biochemical studies; new observations by clinicians as well as enhanced diagnostic and prevention capacities; and more accurate and comprehensive epidemiology. By condensing much of the information presented in the first volume of the previous edition, and exercising rigorous editorial control, Drs. Stevenson and Hall and their contributors have managed to update the book while reducing its size to that of a single volume. All clinicians and scientists interested in birth defects, including pediatricians, geneticists, genetic counselors, obstetricians, and pediatric pathologists, will find this book to be an invaluable source of information.

Author : Natalie Jayne Goodison
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786838407

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Introducing the Medieval Swan by Natalie Jayne Goodison Pdf

Birds have always been a popular and accessible subject, but most books about medieval birds are an overview of their symbolism generally: owl for ill-omen, the pelican as a Eucharistic image and the like. The unique selling point of this book is to focus on one bird and explore it in detail from medieval reality to artistic concept. This book also traces how and why the medieval perception of the swan shifted from hypocritical to courtly within the medieval period. With special attention to ‘The Knight of the Swan’, the book traces the rise and popularity of the medieval swan through literature, history, courtly practices, and art. The book uses thoroughly readable language to appeal to a wide audience and explains some of the reasons why the swan holds such resonance today by covering views of the swan from classic to early modern times.

Author : Candace Robb
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448305636

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The Riverwomans Dragon by Candace Robb Pdf

When the wise woman Magda Digby is suspected of murder, Owen Archer sets out to prove her innocence in this intricately plotted medieval mystery. May, 1375. Owen Archer returns from London to find York in chaos. While the citizens are living in terror of the pestilence which is spreading throughout the land, a new physician has arrived, whipping up fear and suspicion against traditional healers and midwives. With the backing of the new archbishop, he is especially hostile towards Magda Digby, the wise woman who has helped and healed the people of York for many years. At the same time, Magda is uneasy about the arrival of two long-lost kinsfolk. Though they say they are seeking her help, she senses a hidden agenda. Magda’s troubles deepen when she discovers a body in the river near her home – and finds herself under suspicion of murder. Days later, fire rips through a warehouse in the city. Amongst the charred debris lies the body of a man – not burned, but stabbed in the back. Could there be a connection to the corpse in the river? Determined to prove Magda’s innocence, Owen sets out to find answers – but the more he uncovers, the deeper the mystery becomes . . .

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0300125984

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Song of the Nibelungs by Anonim Pdf

It portrays the existential struggles and downfall of an entire people, the Burgundians, in a military conflict with the Huns and their king."--Jacket.

Author : Saint Benedict (Abbot of Monte Cassino.),David Parry
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0852441681

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The Rule of Saint Benedict by Saint Benedict (Abbot of Monte Cassino.),David Parry Pdf

Fifteen centuries after it was written, the Rule of St. Benedict still provides a deep and practical spirituality that helps lay people cope with everyday problems and challenges.

Author : David D. Gilmore
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812235890

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The Trotula by David D. Gilmore Pdf

The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to have been the first female professor of medicine in eleventh- or twelfth-century Salerno, just south of Naples, then the leading center of medical learning in Europe. Yet as Monica H. Green reveals in her introduction to this first edition of the Latin text since the sixteenth century, and the first English translation of the book ever based upon a medieval form of the text, the Trotula is not a single treatise but an ensemble of three independent works, each by a different author. To varying degrees, these three works reflect the synthesis of indigenous practices of southern Italians with the new theories, practices, and medicinal substances coming out of the Arabic world. Arguing that these texts can be understood only within the intellectual and social context that produced them, Green analyzes them against the background of historical gynecological literature as well as current knowledge about women's lives in twelfth-century southern Italy. She examines the history and composition of the three works and introduces the reader to the medical culture of medieval Salerno from which they emerged. Among her findings is that the second of the three texts, "On the Treatments for Women," does derive from the work of a Salernitan woman healer named Trota. However, the other two texts—"On the Conditions of Women" and "On Women's Cosmetics"—are probably of male authorship, a fact indicating the complex gender relations surrounding the production and use of knowledge about the female body. Through an exhaustive study of the extant manuscripts of the Trotula, Green presents a critical edition of the so-called standardized Trotula ensemble, a composite form of the texts that was produced in the mid-thirteenth century and circulated widely in learned circles. The facing-page complete English translation makes the work accessible to a broad audience of readers interested in medieval history, women's studies, and premodern systems of medical thought and practice.

Author : St. Jerome
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781987022889

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Against Jovinianus by St. Jerome Pdf

Jovinianus, about whom little more is known than what is to be found in Jerome's treatise, published a Latin treatise outlining several opinions: That a virgin is no better, as such, than a wife in the sight of God. Abstinence from food is no better than a thankful partaking of food. A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. All sins are equal. There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state. In addition to this, he held the birth of Jesus Christ to have been by a "true parturition," and was thus refuting the orthodoxy of the time, according to which, the infant Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as his Resurrection body afterwards did, out of the tomb or through closed doors.

Author : Don C. Skemer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0271046961

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Binding Words by Don C. Skemer Pdf

In the Middle Ages, textual amulets--short texts written on parchment or paper and worn on the body--were thought to protect the bearer against enemies, to heal afflictions caused by demonic invasions, and to bring the wearer good fortune. In Binding Words, Don C. Skemer provides the first book-length study of this once-common means of harnessing the magical power of words. Textual amulets were a unique source of empowerment, promising the believer safe passage through a precarious world by means of an ever-changing mix of scriptural quotations, divine names, common prayers, and liturgical formulas. Although theologians and canon lawyers frequently derided textual amulets as ignorant superstition, many literate clergy played a central role in producing and disseminating them. The texts were, in turn, embraced by a broad cross-section of Western Europe. Saints and parish priests, physicians and village healers, landowners and peasants alike believed in their efficacy. Skemer offers careful analysis of several dozen surviving textual amulets along with other contemporary medieval source materials. In the process, Binding Words enriches our understanding of popular religion and magic in everyday medieval life.

Author : Barbara Freitag
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134282494

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Sheela-na-gigs by Barbara Freitag Pdf

A study of the mysterious stone carvings of naked females exposing their genitals on medieval churches all over the British Isles.

Author : Andrew Ure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Factory system
ISBN : UOM:39015008164140

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The Philosophy of Manufactures by Andrew Ure Pdf