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- catalog abstract ""Highly detailed and clearly written, this book is the first full-length study of the complex system of practices, beliefs and taboos which surrounded conception and childbirth in early modern Europe. In a rich and scholarly study, Jacques Gelis reconstructs the activities and attitudes of the midwives and mothers, and the sufferings they had to endure. He continues with an examination of the role of the Church, the herbalist and the mineral world (touchstones and talisman) in the explanation of the mysteries of procreation."--amazon.ca.".
- catalog alternative "Arbre et le fruit. English".
- catalog contributor b3407722.
- catalog created "1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1991.".
- catalog description ""Highly detailed and clearly written, this book is the first full-length study of the complex system of practices, beliefs and taboos which surrounded conception and childbirth in early modern Europe. In a rich and scholarly study, Jacques Gelis reconstructs the activities and attitudes of the midwives and mothers, and the sufferings they had to endure. He continues with an examination of the role of the Church, the herbalist and the mineral world (touchstones and talisman) in the explanation of the mysteries of procreation."--amazon.ca.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 326 p., [4] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "History of childbirth.".
- catalog identifier "1555531024 :".
- catalog identifier "1555531059 (pbk.) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "History of childbirth.".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "1991.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Northeastern University Press,".
- catalog relation "History of childbirth.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "392/.12/0944 20".
- catalog subject "Birth customs France History.".
- catalog subject "Childbirth France History.".
- catalog subject "GT2465.F8 G44 1991".
- catalog subject "Labor, Obstetric France.".
- catalog subject "Obstetrics France History.".
- catalog subject "Pregnancy France History.".
- catalog subject "Pregnancy France.".
- catalog subject "WQ 300 G317a 1991a".
- catalog title "Arbre et le fruit. English".
- catalog title "History of childbirth : fertility, pregnancy and birth in early modern Europe / Jacques Gélis ; translated by Rosemary Morris.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".