History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth in Early Modern EuropeISBN: 978-0-7456-1840-1
Paperback
344 pages
August 1996, Polity
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Highly detailed and clearly written, this book is the first
full-length study of the complex system of practices, beliefs and
taboos which surrounded conception and childbirth in early modern
Europe.
In a rich and scholarly study, Jacques Gélis reconstructs the activities and attitudes of the midwives and mothers, and the sufferings they had to endure. He continues with an examination of the role of the Church, the herbalist and the mineral world (touchstones and talisman) in the explanation of the mysteries of procreation.