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,
“... be collected in this area which can stir the dullest spirit. I have to confess that before reading Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski’s Not of Woman Born, I had never thought about what lay behind the story of Caesar, of Caesarean birth, and of Macduff ‘from his mother’s womb/Untimely ripp’d’. What I had failed to realise – though one realises as soon ... ”
