Jacobean Song and Herbert's Metrics

Schleiner, Louise

doi:10.2307/450388

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

1979

DOI: 10.2307/450388

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Jacobean Song and Herbert's Metrics

Louise Schleiner¹

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“… Winfreid Schleiner has argued that Renaissance male practitioners became increasingly concerned about the potential erotic results of the medical manipulation of the female genitals. Similarly, McTavish has shown in her work on midwifery in early modern France that royal midwife Louise Bourgeois was concerned that her patients may have experienced shame at having their bodies exposed to the visual and tactile scrutiny of a surgeon. Shame was an important part, therefore, of the complexities of gendered bodily access at this time.…”

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Female barrenness, bodily access and aromatic treatments in seventeenth-century England

Evans

2014

Hist Res

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Across the seventeenth century medical self-help manuals noted that aromatic substances were a suitable remedy for female barrenness. It has often been suggested that in the early modern period physicians did not touch their patients but instead relied upon patient narrative to diagnose and treat the sick body. This article problematizes this issue by investigating the multi-sensory approach to treating infertility, a disorder invested with concerns of gendered bodily access. It will be demonstrated that the recommendation of aromatic treatments for infertility allowed male physicians a means to negotiate the complex gender boundaries that restricted their access to women's bodies.Across the seventeenth century writers in several medical self-help manuals noted that aromatic substances, in the form of fumes, suffumigations, gloves and ointments, were a suitable remedy for female barrenness. In particular the use of musk, civet and ambergris was thought to stimulate the reproductive organs, encouraging sexual desire and fertility. Many traditional histories of early modern medicine have suggested that physicians did not touch their patients, except to take a pulse, instead relying upon patient narrative, and in some cases urine analysis, to diagnose and treat the sick body. 1 Similar comments were also made about the male practice of gynaecological and obstetric medicine.2 Yet it would appear from the language of medical texts, as will be * The research for this article was made possible by a postdoctoral research fellowship provided by the Society for Renaissance Studies. The author would also like to thank Alexandra Walsham, Sarah Toulalan and Catherine Rider, along with the anonymous reviewers, whose generous comments and suggestions helped to shape the final version of this article. Anxiety and Healing in 17th-Century England (Cambridge, 1981), pp. 26-8 (MacDonald did not state explicitly that physicians did not touch their patients but described the process Richard Napier went through with his patients, relying on both questions and patient narrative); J. Lane, John Hall and his Patients: the Medical Practice of Shakespeare's Son-in-Law (Stratford-upon-Avon, 1996) Tudor and Stuart England (1982); Eccles did note at one point that an instrument could be used to help physicians view the internal cavity of the neck of the womb (p. 84)).

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“…Some of his poems may have been musically molded from the start, such that, for example, musical meter patterned the poetic form. 40…”

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The Holy Spirit at Work in the Arts: Learning from George Herbert

Begbie¹

2012

Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

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If we want some clarity about the relation of the arts to the Holy Spirit of the Christian faith, it is wise to let the arts have proper space to operate theologically. The remarkable poem by George Herbert, “Ephes. 4. 30,” along with material from some of his other poems, gives a fair sense of what Herbert would have assumed about the relation of the arts to the third person of the Trinity, and is especially enlightening for the theology–arts discussion today.

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The "Unhewn Stones" of Herbert's Verse

Woods¹

1981

George Herbert Journal

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Female barrenness, bodily access and aromatic treatments in seventeenth-century England

Female barrenness, bodily access and aromatic treatments in seventeenth-century England

The Holy Spirit at Work in the Arts: Learning from George Herbert

The "Unhewn Stones" of Herbert's Verse

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