Women beware midwives
Tom Shippey, 10 May 1990
The Medieval Woman
by Edith Ennan, translated by Edmund Jephcott.
Blackwell, 327 pp., £32.50, November 1989,9780631161660 Show More
by Edith Ennan, translated by Edmund Jephcott.
Blackwell, 327 pp., £32.50, November 1989,
Not of woman born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski.
Cornell, 204 pp., $27.95, March 1990,0 8014 2292 2 Show More
by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski.
Cornell, 204 pp., $27.95, March 1990,
Childhood in the Middle Ages
by Shulamith Shahar.
Routledge, 342 pp., £35, May 1990,0 415 02624 5 Show More
by Shulamith Shahar.
Routledge, 342 pp., £35, May 1990,
Lovesickness in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and its Commentaries
by Mary Wack.
Pennsylvania, 354 pp., $39.95, February 1990,9780812281422 Show More
by Mary Wack.
Pennsylvania, 354 pp., $39.95, February 1990,
Barbarolexis: Medieval Writing and Sexuality
by Alexandre Leupin, translated by Kate Cooper.
Harvard, 261 pp., £27.95, July 1990,0 674 06170 5 Show More
by Alexandre Leupin, translated by Kate Cooper.
Harvard, 261 pp., £27.95, July 1990,
“... might have thought he had the right to. Noble fathers were dangerous people, as emerges also from Mary Wack’s Lovesickness in the Middle Ages, another work that draws quite unexpected interest out of a medico-sociological theme. Her first figure is a ‘Bronze statuette of an emaciated man’, first century AD. His left wrist is held up in a ... ”
