IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1208: Medieval Childbirth: Representations and Realities
Wednesday 3 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Rebecca Wynne Johnson, Department of History, Princeton University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Theresa Earenfight, Department of History, Seattle University |
Paper 1208-a | Transfiguring the Nativity: Change and Continuity in the Iconography of Holy Births from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Painting, Social History, Women's Studies |
Paper 1208-b | Midwives in Medieval Arabic Sources: Between the Realm of the Patriarchs and the Kingdom of the Mothers (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medicine, Women's Studies |
Paper 1208-c | Mortal Motherhood: Identifying Obstetric Deaths in Early Medieval English Burials (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Demography, Medicine, Women's Studies |
Abstract | Despite its literally vital importance to the continuation of society, childbirth remains among the most elusive of all medieval moments. Yet scholars nonetheless continue to find creative ways through which we may begin to apprehend some of what it meant socially, medically, and biologically. With presentations drawing on materials as diverse as Italian paintings, Arabic manuscripts, and skeletal remains from early medieval England, this eclectic international panel will explore what these varied sources have to tell us about the beginning of life in the Middle Ages. |