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,
“... last statement would almost certainly be repudiated, or viewed with indulgent scorn, by Professor Alexandre Leupin, whose Barbarolexis is very much the odd one out of the works reviewed here. Leupin sees at the start a distinction between ‘document’ and ‘monument’, and has little or no time for the former ... ”
