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Pregnancy Advice from Medieval Preachers

Since Iā€™ve been on maternity leave Iā€™ve not surprisingly been pondering all things to do with pregnancy and baby care. Iā€™ve also been thinking about medieval pregnancy advice, since itā€™s a topic Iā€™ve touched on during my ongoing research on medieval fertility and infertility. Medical texts are probably the medieval sources which give most information […]


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More Leeds Sessions – Fertility and Infertility

Inspired by Levi’s call for Leeds and Kalamazoo papers on the blog a few weeks ago I thought I’d post one of my own for Leeds 2019… I’m currently in the process of putting together a session (or two, if there’s a lot of interest) on Fertility and Infertility for next year’s International Medieval Congress […]


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Sharing Medieval Research with the Community

A couple of weeks ago, on Saturday 17th March, a few staff in the Centre had a stall at the Universityā€™s Community Day to showcase some of the research we do relating to Exeter Cathedral.Ā  We had interest from people of all ages, asking questions about our projects, the pictures and maps we were showing, […]


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Research Postcard: Talking about Gender and Healthcare in Cologne

At the end of January I went to a workshop at the University of Cologne, run by a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities and expertly organized by Eva-Maria Cersovsky and Ursula Giessmann. It focused on ā€˜Gender(ed) Histories of Health, Healing and the Body, 1250-1550ā€™. Iā€™ve long been interested in this area, which is important for […]


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Thinking about Medieval Infertility

Iā€™m on research leave this term and working on an ongoing project which looks at attitudes to infertility and childlessness in medieval England.Ā  Although there has been a great deal of work in recent decades on topics such as marriage, family structures, childhood and reproductive medicine in the Middle Ages (and in other periods) less […]


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