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Maternal materialities: objects, rituals and material evidence of medieval and early modern childbirth

Maternal materialities: objects, rituals and material evidence of medieval and early modern childbirth
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ISBN 2503605737 (hardcover)
9782503605739 (hardcover)
Title Maternal materialities : objects, rituals and material evidence of medieval and early modern childbirth / edited by Costanza Gislon Dopfel
Publisher Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2023
Physical desc. 370 pages ; illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm.
Series Generation : bodies and gender in history 2
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Part 1: The iconography of birth. Too real to behold: vandalizing childbirth images in sacred texts / Mati Meyer -- Pregnancy and pilgrimage in Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa María / Emilie L. Bergmann -- Reality and imagination in the iconography of the lying-in room / Constanza Gislon Dopfel -- Part 2: Pregnant and parturient bodies. A dress for the mother in late medieval and Renaissance Italy / Elisa Tosi Brandi -- Feeding the new mother: rules and exceptions / Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli -- Gifts for the mother: medieval and early modern trays and ceramics celebrating childbirth / Constanza Gislon Dopfel -- Ten privileges for pregnant women in early modern Spain / Nina Kremmel -- The economics of fertility: female slaves and their children in Italy and in the Venetian colonies / Antonella Parmeggiani and Constanza Gislon Dopfel -- Part 3: Inside the birthing room. 'My best shete': linen and childbirth in England, 1450-1650 / Róisín Donohoe -- The materials of midwifery in early modern England in five groups of objects / Sara Read -- The material culture of the birthing room in seventeenth-century France: the hand and other instruments / Alison Klairmont Lingo -- Part 4: Childbirth’s ritual objects. Obstetrics shaped by ritual: water and emergency baptism in Spanish birthing scenarios, 1500-1800 / Wolfram Aichinger and Alice Dulmovits -- Nuestra vida una tela: threads, cloth, and the fabrication of life in early modern Spain / Sabrina Grohsebner -- The use of saints’ clothing in high medieval childbirth / Fiona Harris-Stoertz -- Birth girdles as metric relics of the Virgin and Christ in late medieval England / Mary Morse -- Part 5: Death in childbirth. Foetal death in high medieval pregnancy / Fiona Harris-Stoertz -- Twin births and emergency baptisms in Northern Italy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / Mirko Traversari and Giorgio Gruppioni -- Double burials: are there always mother-child couples? a multidisciplinary study from an early modern hospital cemetery / Gaia Gabanini, Elisabetta Cilli, and Mirko Traversari -- Part 4: Childbirth and fertility rituals across the millennia: from prehistory to the postmodern era. The frog, the toad, and the womb / Luigi Canetti -- Rituals of the afterbirth: postmodern and biomedical health models in placentophagy / Svea Vikander.
Subject Childbirth -- History
Childbirth in art
Midwifery -- History
Birth customs
Obstetrics -- History
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