Popish Midwife

Author : Annelisa Christensen
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783019670

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Popish Midwife by Annelisa Christensen Pdf

In seventeenth-century London, thirteen years after the plague and twelve years after the Great Fire, the restoration of King Charles II has dulled the memory of Cromwell's puritan rule, yet fear and suspicion are rife. Religious turmoil is rarely far from tipping the scales into hysteria.Elizabeth Cellier, a bold and outspoken midwife, regularly visits Newgate Prison to distribute alms to victims of religious persecution. There she falls in with the charming Captain Willoughby, a debtor, whom she enlists to gather information about crimes against prisoners, so she might involve herself in petitioning the king in their name.''Tis a plot, Madam, of the direst sort.' With these whispered words Willoughby draws Elizabeth unwittingly into the infamous Popish Plot and soon not even the fearful warnings of her husband, Pierre, can loosen her bond with it.This is the incredible true story of one woman ahead of her time and her fight against prejudice and injustice.

Author : Annelisa Christensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1783019689

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The Popish Midwife by Annelisa Christensen Pdf

Author : Hilary Marland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134818129

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The Art of Midwifery by Hilary Marland Pdf

The Art of Midwifery is the first book to examine midwives' lives and work across Europe in the early modern period. Drawing on a vast range of archival material from England, Holland, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the contributors show the diversity in midwives' practices, competence, socio-economic background and education, as well as their public function and image. The Art of Midwifery is an excellent resource for students of women's history, social history and medical history.

Author : Doreen Evenden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780521027854

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The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London by Doreen Evenden Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive and detailed study of early modern midwives in seventeenth-century London. Midwives, as a group, have been dismissed by historians as being inadequately educated and trained for the task of child delivery. The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London rejects these claims by exploring the midwives' training and their licensing in an unofficial apprenticeship by the Church. Dr. Evenden also offers an accurate depiction of the midwives in their socioeconomic context by examining a wide range of seventeenth-century sources. This expansive study not only recovers the names of almost one thousand women who worked as midwives in the twelve London parishes, but also brings to light details about their spouses, their families and their associates.

Author : Cathy Hartley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135355340

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A Historical Dictionary of British Women by Cathy Hartley Pdf

This reference book, containing the biographies of more than 1,100 notable British women from Boudicca to Barbara Castle, is an absorbing record of female achievement spanning some 2,000 years of British life. Most of the lives included are those of women whose work took them in some way before the public and who therefore played a direct and important role in broadening the horizons of women. Also included are women who influenced events in a more indirect way: the wives of kings and politicians, mistresses, ladies in waiting and society hostesses. Originally published as The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women, this newly re-worked edition includes key figures who have died in the last 20 years, such as The Queen Mother, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, Elizabeth Jennings and Christina Foyle.

Author : Caroline Bicks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351917650

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Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England by Caroline Bicks Pdf

At the intersections of early modern literature and history, Shakespeare and Women's Studies, Midwiving Subjects explores how Shakespearean drama and contemporary medical, religious and popular texts figured the midwife as a central producer of the body's cultural markers. In addition to attending most Englishwomen's births and testifying to their in extremis confessions about paternity, the midwife allegedly controlled the size of one's tongue and genitals at birth and was obligated to perform virginity exams, impotence tests and emergency baptisms. The signs of purity and masculinity, paternity and salvation were inherently open to interpretation, yet early modern culture authorized midwives to generate and announce them. Midwiving Subjects, then, challenges recent studies that read the midwife as a woman whose power was limited to a marginal and unruly birthroom community and instead uncovers the midwife's foundational role, not only in the rituals of reproduction, but in the process of cultural production itself. As a result of recent changes in managed healthcare and of increased attention to uncovering histories of women's experiences, midwives - past and present - are currently a subject of great interest. This book will appeal to readers interested in Shakespeare as well as the history of women and medicine.

Author : Julia Allison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000090000

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Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century by Julia Allison Pdf

This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete profession, caring safely for childbearing women. With a particular focus on sixteenth and twentieth century midwifery practice, it includes new research which provides evidence of the identity, social status, lives, families and practice of contemporary midwives, and argues that the excellent care given by ecclesiastically licensed midwives in Tudor England was not bettered until the twentieth century. Relying on a wide variety of archived and personally collected material, this history illuminates the lives, words, professional experiences and outcomes of midwives. It explores the place of women in society, the development of midwifery education and regulation, the seventeenth century arrival of the accoucheurs and the continuing drive by obstetricians to medicalise birth. A fascinating and compelling read, it highlights the politics and challenges that have shaped midwifery practice today and encourages readers to be confident in midwifery-led care and giving women choices in childbirth. It is an important read for all those interested in childbirth.

Author : Mihoko Suzuki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351941129

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Elizabeth Cellier by Mihoko Suzuki Pdf

Elizabeth Cellier, the scandalous celebrity known as the 'Popish midwife', became the focus of a large number of pamphlets in 1680: accounts of her two trials, her self-vindication, Malice Defeated, her opponent Thomas Dangerfield's rejoinder, and various anonymous satiric attacks against her. She was tried twice: the first time for the more serious charge of treason, and the second for libel, for publishing Malice Defeated. She was acquitted the first time, but found guilty the second, though her punishment was to be pilloried, not executed. She reemerges as the author of tracts on midwifery, proposing to James II the establishment of a professional guild of midwives. Her writings exhibit her remarkable determination to publish her accusations of judicial torture and her advocacy of the licensing of midwives as professional women, as well as exemplifying the importance of the printing press for enabling women to participate in the political public sphere.

Author : Elizabeth CELLIER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1680
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023808569

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The Tryal of Elizabeth Cellier, the Popish Midwife, at the Old Baily, Septemb. 11. 1680, Etc by Elizabeth CELLIER Pdf

Author : Alfred Russell Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590917258

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A catalogue of rare, curious and valuable old books on sale by Alfred Russell Smith by Alfred Russell Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555093658

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Catalogue of the Principle Portion of the Valuable Library of Goddard Johnson ... which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby, 3 Wellington Street, Strand, on Friday March 17th, 1843, and Three Following Days, (Sunday Excepted) at One O'clock, Precisely by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Monteyne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351541268

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The Printed Image in Early Modern London by Joseph Monteyne Pdf

Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements, space, and visual representation, this study offers the first sustained analysis of the vital interrelationship between printed images and urban life in early modern London. The study differs from all other books on early modern British print culture in that it seeks out printed forms that were active in shaping and negotiating the urban milieu-prints that troubled categories of high and low culture, images that emerged when the political became infused with the creative, as well as prints that bear traces of the roles they performed and the ways they were used in the city. It is distinguished by its close and sustained readings of individual prints, from the likes of such artists as Wenceslaus Hollar, Francis Barlow, and William Faithorne; and this visual analysis is complemented with a thorough examination of the dynamics of print production as a commercial exchange that takes place within a wider set of exchanges (of goods, people, ideas and money) across the city and the nation. This study challenges scholars to re-imagine the function of popular prints as a highly responsive form of cultural production, capable not only of 'recording' events, spaces and social actions, but profoundly shaping the way these entities are conceived in the moment and also recast within cultural memory. It offers historians of print culture and British art a sophisticated and innovative model of how to mobilize rigorous archival research in the service of a thoroughly historicized and theorized analysis of visual representation and its relationship to space and social identity.

Author : Frances E. Dolan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501734113

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Whores of Babylon by Frances E. Dolan Pdf

In the seventeenth century, the largely Protestant nation of England was preoccupied with its Catholic subjects. They inspired more prolific and harsher criticism and more elaborate attempts at legal regulation than did any other minority group. To understand this phenomenon, Frances E. Dolan probes the verbal and visual representations of Catholics and Catholicism and the uses to which these were put during three crises in Protestant'Catholic relations: the gunpowder plot (1605), Queen Henrietta Maria's open advocacy of Catholicism in the 1630s and 1640s, and the popish and meal tub plots (1678—1680). She uses each crisis as a jumping-off point, an opportunity for speculation, as did contemporary writers. Drawing on political, religious, and legal writings and offering fresh readings of literary texts such as Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra, Dolan shows how often Catholics and Catholicism were linked to disorderly women. Dolan maintains that since Catholics were members of many English families and communities and prominent at court, the threat they offered was precisely that they could not be readily isolated and assigned to a category—both laws and polemic struggled to identify Catholics, but never succeeded in establishing a clear line between Catholics and everyone else. In seventeenth-century England, Dolan says, the threat of Catholicism lay in the tension between the foreign and the familiar, the different and the same.

Author : British Museum,William Hughes Willshire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : British museum
ISBN : UOM:39015013236552

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A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum by British Museum,William Hughes Willshire Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004418394

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The History of Medical Education in Britain by Anonim Pdf

Professional education forms a key element in the transmission of medical learning and skills, in occupational solidarity and in creating and recreating the very image of the practitioner. Yet the history of British medical education has hitherto been surprisingly neglected. Building upon papers contributed to two conferences on the history of medical education in the early 1990s, this volume presents new research and original synthesis on key aspects of medical instruction, theoretical and practical, from early medieval times into the present century. Academic and practical aspects are equally examined, and balanced attention is given to different sites of instruction, be it the university or the hospital. The crucial role of education in medical qualifications and professional licensing is also examined as is the part it has played in the regulation of the entry of women to the profession. Contributors are Juanita Burnby, W.F. Bynum, Laurence M. Geary, Faye Getz, Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, S.W.F. Holloway, Stephen Jacyna, Peter Murray Jones, Helen King, Susan C. Lawrence, Irvine Loudon, Margaret Pelling, Godelieve Van Heteren, and John Harley Warner.