Book of Donmon Teith

Throughout the early modern period in France, surgeon men-midwives were predominantly associated with sexual impropriety and physical danger; yet over time they

"Highly detailed and clearly written, this book is the first full-length study of the complex system of practices, beliefs and taboos which surrounded conceptio

Pregnant Fictions explores the complex role of pregnancy in early-modern tale-telling and considers how stories of childbirth were used to rethink gendered "tru