Conceiving Bodies : Reproduction in Early Medieval English Medicine

The Old English remedies for women's reproductive ailments gesture to contemporary notions of bodily autonomy. Close examination of the remedies for menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, stillbirth, and abortion reveal distinctions among them, where previously they were understood reductively as women's medicine.

• | Author: Dana Oswald
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: May 28, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1526176882
• | ISBN-13: 9781526176882