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Medieval Midwives Beyond Myths

Medieval Midwives Beyond Myths

Update: 2024-08-03
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(Host: Lucy) 


Who were medieval midwives and what did they do? As imagined in novels and films, the medical expertise of such women might be secret, mystical, persecuted, or some combination of all three. In the archives, traces of their activities can be tantalizingly hard to find. This podcast looks not only at the history of midwives in medieval Europe, but at the history of how scholars have tried to recover and reconstruct that history.

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Medieval Midwives Beyond Myths

Medieval Midwives Beyond Myths

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