Pregnancy And Childbirth In The Premodern World

Author : Costanza Gislon Dopfel,Alessandra Foscati,Charles Burnett
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Jennifer Evans,Ciara Meehan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319441689

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Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century by Jennifer Evans,Ciara Meehan Pdf

This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, personal and institutional histories of pregnancy. It follows the process of reproduction from conception and contraception, to birth and parenthood. The contributors explore several key themes: narratives of pregnancy and birth, the patient-consumer, and literary representations of childbearing. This book explores how these issues have been constructed, represented and experienced in a range of geographical locations from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Crossing the boundary between the pre-modern and modern worlds, the chapters reveal the continuities, similarities and differences in understanding a process that is often, in the popular mind-set, considered to be fundamental and unchanging.

Author : Jacques Gélis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : IND:30000009702204

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History of Childbirth by Jacques Gélis Pdf

"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 Gelis 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."--Amazon.ca.

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048125999

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Childbirth Across Cultures by Helaine Selin Pdf

This book will explore the childbirth process through globally diverse perspectives in order to offer a broader context with which to think about birth. We will address multiple rituals and management models surrounding the labor and birth process from communities across the globe. Labor and birth are biocultural events that are managed in countless ways. We are particularly interested in the notion of power. Who controls the pregnancy and the birth? Is it the hospital, the doctor, or the in-laws, and in which cultures does the mother have the control? These decisions, regarding place of birth, position, who receives the baby and even how the mother may or may not behave during the actual delivery, are all part of the different ways that birth is conducted. One chapter of the book will be devoted to midwives and other birth attendants. There will also be chapters on the Evolution of Birth, on Women’s Birth Narratives, and on Child Spacing and Breastfeeding. This book will bring together global research conducted by professional anthropologists, midwives and doctors who work closely with the individuals from the cultures they are writing about, offering a unique perspective direct from the cultural group.

Author : Nadia Filippini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780429560477

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Pregnancy, Delivery, Childbirth by Nadia Filippini Pdf

This book reconstructs the history of conception, pregnancy and childbirth in Europe from antiquity to the 20th century, focusing on its most significant turning points: the emergence of a medical-scientific approach to delivery in Ancient Greece, the impact of Christianity, the establishment of the man-midwife in the 18th century, the medicalisation of childbirth, the emergence of a new representation of the foetus as "unborn citizen", and, finally, the revolution of reproductive technologies. The book explores a history that, far from being linear, progressive or homogeneous, is characterised by significant continuities as well as transformations. The ways in which a woman gives birth and lives her pregnancy and the postpartum period are the result of a complex series of factors. The book therefore places these events in their wider cultural, social and religious contexts, which influenced the forms taken by rituals and therapeutic practices, religious and civil prescriptions and the regulation of the female body. The investigation of this complex experience represents a crucial contribution to cultural, social and gender history, as well as an indispensable tool for understanding today’s reality. It will be of great use to undergraduates studying the history of childbirth, the history of medicine, the history of the body, as well as women's and gender history more broadly.

Author : Ashley Purpura,Thomas Arentzen,Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666755268

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Rethinking Gender in Orthodox Christianity by Ashley Purpura,Thomas Arentzen,Susan Ashbrook Harvey Pdf

What is the role of gender in Eastern Christianity? In this volume, Orthodox experts of different disciplines and cultural backgrounds tackle this complex question. They engage critically with gender issues within their own tradition. Rather than simply accepting pervasive assumptions and practices, the authors challenge readers to reconsider historically or theologically justified views by offering nuanced insights into the tradition. The first part of the book explores normative positions in Orthodox texts and contexts. From examinations of Scripture and hagiography to re-evaluations of monastic, patriarchal, and legal sources, it sheds new light on gender issues in Orthodox Christianity. The second part considers how gendered expectations shape individuals’ participation in Orthodox liturgical life and how ecclesial contexts inflect gender theologically. The chapters reflect diverse Orthodox voices brought together to foster new understandings of the ways gender shapes Orthodox religious lives and beliefs. Rethinking what has been inherited from tradition, the authors proffer new perspectives on what it means to be a man or woman within Orthodoxy in the twenty-first century.

Author : Judith Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Birth customs
ISBN : 0865531269

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Childbirth Wisdom by Judith Goldsmith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190879051

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The Bundahi%sn by Anonim Pdf

The Bundahisn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology. Compiled sometime in the ninth century CE, it is one of the most important surviving testaments to Zoroastrian literature in the Middle Persian language and to pre-Islamic Iranian culture. Despite having been composed some two millennia after the Prophet Zoroaster's revelation, it is nonetheless a concise compendium of ancient Zoroastrian knowledge that draws on and reshapes earlier layers of the tradition. Well known in the field of Iranian Studies as an essential primary source for scholars of ancient Iran's history, religions, literatures, and languages, the Bundahisn is also a great work of literature in and of itself, ranking alongside the creation myths of other ancient traditions. The book's thirty-six diverse chapters, which touch on astronomy, eschatology, zoology, medicine, and more, are composed in a variety of styles, registers, and genres, from spare lists and concise commentaries to philosophical discourses and poetic eschatological visions. This new translation, the first in English in nearly a century, highlights the aesthetic quality, literary style, and complexity and raises the profile of pre-Islamic Zoroastrian literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004549975

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Soul and Body Diseases, Remedies and Healing in Middle Eastern Religious Cultures and Traditions by Anonim Pdf

Aiming to develop a less studied literary genre, this book provides a well-rounded picture of spiritual and physical diseases and their remedies as they were ingrained in the imagination and practices of Middle Eastern Abrahamic cultures, with a special emphasis of Christian communities (Greeks/Byzantines, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Ethiopians). The volume traces traditions dealing with the onset of a disease in the body and soul, the search for remedy, the maintenance of healing, and the engagement of these processes with faith—either through their affirmation in the public sphere or remaining within the personal framework, as in monastic traditions. A recurring presence in religious literature and the history of the intellectual world, the confrontation between disease and healing may well still be current for our modern understanding of the paths to seeking and maintaining the health of one’s body and soul, without excluding the factor of faith as a core principle.

Author : Mary Morse
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004468498

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A Companion to Medieval Miracle Collections by Anonim Pdf

A companion volume for the usage of medieval miracle collections as a source, offering versatile approaches to the origins, methods, and techniques of various types of miracle narratives, as well as fascinating case studies from across Europe.

Author : Catherine Hanley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300253580

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Two Houses, Two Kingdoms by Catherine Hanley Pdf

An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the course of history. The Capetians of France and the Angevins of England waged war, made peace, and intermarried. The lands under the control of the English king once reached to within a few miles of Paris, and those ruled by the French house, at their apogee, crossed the Channel and encompassed London itself. In this lively, engaging history, Catherine Hanley traces the great clashes, and occasional friendships, of the two dynasties. Along the way, she emphasizes the fascinating and influential women of the houses--including Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Castille--and shows how personalities and familial bonds shaped the fate of two countries. This is a tale of two intertwined dynasties that shaped the present and the future of England and France, told through the stories of the people involved.

Author : Taylor McCall
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789147261

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The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe by Taylor McCall Pdf

A new history of the medieval illustrations that birthed modern anatomy. This book is the first history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrated, The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe explores the many ways in which medieval surgeons, doctors, monks, and artists understood and depicted human anatomy. Taylor McCall refutes the common misconception that Renaissance artists and anatomists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Andreas Vesalius were the fathers of anatomy who performed the first human dissections. On the contrary, she argues that these Renaissance figures drew upon centuries of visual and written tradition in their works.

Author : Katherine L. French
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812253054

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Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London by Katherine L. French Pdf

Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how increased consumption in the aftermath of the Black Death reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come.

Author : Corinne Saunders,Diane Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108876919

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Women and Medieval Literary Culture by Corinne Saunders,Diane Watt Pdf

Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literary texts, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time. Engaging with Latin, French, German, Welsh and Gaelic literary culture, it places British writing in wider European contexts while also considering more distant influences such as Arabic. Essays span topics including book production and authorship; reception; linguistic, literary, and cultural contexts and influences; women's education and spheres of knowledge; women as writers, scribes and translators; women as patrons, readers and book owners; and women as subjects. Reflecting recent trends in scholarship, the volume spans the early Middle Ages through to the eve of the Reformation and emphasises the multilingual, multicultural and international contexts of women's literary culture.