Conceiving Bodies

Conceiving Bodies

Reproduction in Early Medieval English Medicine

Oswald, Dana

Manchester University Press

05/2024

232

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9781526176882

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Introduction - Hysteric philology and the occlusion of the ordinary bodies of early medieval English women
1 The diagnostic body and the matter of menstruation in the remedies and penitentials
2 Fertility and pregnancy in the medical texts and prognostics
3 Overlap and overwriting in medical language for childbirth
4 Purging as treatment for miscarriage, stillbirth and conception
Conclusion - Womb to tomb: The afterlives of early medieval women's remedies
Index -- .
medical humanities; medieval medicine; medieval penitential; Old English; philology; reproductive medicine; women's medicine