Childbirth isn't for the faint-hearted at the best of times, let alone in the medieval period. What was a birthing room like at this time in history? Who would have been in there helping bring a new ...

Being a midwife in the Middle Ages was no easy task – it was messy, risky, and often life-or-death. In this video, we explore ...

The 14th-century Shem Tov Bible is now being exhibited at the National Library of Israel, a year after a family bought it for ...

Could You Survive Medieval Childbirth? What was medieval childbirth like? And why were there often so many people in the room? 38 mins Betwixt The Sheets The Sex Worker Who Murdered A Roman Emperor ...

Medieval Women: In their Own Words spans the ... designed to ensure the woman who wore it had a safe passage through ...

Is sexual and reproductive violence historically accurate to the medieval age ... garden-variety cruelty and, of course, childbirth gone wrong. George R.R. Martin, the mind behind the iconic ...

From a plague-survivor named Wat to a woman called Eadgifu who died in childbirth, meet some of the 'common' people of medieval Cambridge. The hospital of St John the Evangelist was founded in ...

However, when discussing the intricacies of married life, medieval Europeans often spoke quite specifically about the role of wife and mother as a form of work. Pregnancy and childbirth were very ...

Medieval women made their flesh into pure meaning. In childbirth, they wrapped their bellies in silk and paper girdles inscribed with prayers and instructions: Count the drops of Christ’s blood ...