English Birth Girdles

Devotions for Women in “Travell of Childe”

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the "girdle relics" of the Virgin Mary and other saints loaned to queens and noblewomen, extending childbirth protection to women of all classes. This book examines the texts and images of nine English birth girdles produced between the reigns of Richard II and Henry VIII. Cultural artifacts of lay devotion within the birthing chamber, the birth girdles offered the solace and promise of faith to the parturient woman and her attendants amid religious dissent, political upheaval, recurring epidemics, and the onset of print.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-06
Mått155 x 230 x 27 mm
Vikt812 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieResearch in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Antal sidor479
FörlagDe Gruyter
ISBN9781501518140

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AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroductionChapter 1: Philadelphia, Redemptorist Archives, olim EsopusChapter 2: London, British Library, Harley Charter 43.A14Chapter 3: New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Takamiya Depository, Takamiya MS 56Chapter 4: New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Beinecke MS 410Chapter 5: New York, Morgan Library & Museum, Glazier MS 39Chapter 6: London, British Library, Additional MS 88929 (Prince Henry's roll)Chapter 7: London, British Library, Harley Roll T.11Chapter 8: London, Wellcome Collection, Wellcome MS 632Chapter 9: London, British Library, STC 14547.5Conclusion: From Orthodoxy to HeresyAppendix 1: Two Childbirth Units in the Birth GirdlesAppendix 2: New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Takamiya Depository, Takamiya MS 56Appendix 3: New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Beinecke MS 410Appendix 4: London, British Library, STC 14547.5BibliographyIndex