Since Iāve been on maternity leave Iāve not surprisingly been pondering all things to do with pregnancy and baby care. Iāve also been thinking about medieval pregnancy advice, since itās a topic Iāve touched on during my ongoing research on medieval fertility and infertility. Medical texts are probably the medieval sources which give most information […]
In my previous post for the Centre for Medieval Studies blog, I promised a much-needed follow-up to my interview with the storyteller Rachel Rose Reid, whose retelling of the medieval French Roman de Silence is currently touring around the country. This week, weāll be talking about some of the more challenging questions raised by the […]
Having recently passed the viva for my thesis āPainful Transformations: A Medical Approach to Experience, Life Cycle and Text in British Library, Additional MS 61823, The Book of Margery Kempeā, it seems like a timely moment to reflect on the past few months and years of my postgraduate study at Exeter. I am grateful to […]
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