Marketing Midwives in Seventeenth‐Century London: A Re‐examination of Jane Sharp's <i>The Midwives Book</i>

Walsh, Katharine Phelps

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“…3 Jane Sharp is generally believed to be the first woman/midwife to write an Englishlanguage midwifery text, The Midwives Book of 1671, although compared to Bourgeois and Siegemund, very little is known about Sharp biographically (Hobby 1999); this has led some scholars to go so far as to claim that Sharp wasn't a woman at all, but rather a male author writing with a female pseudonym to increase the marketability of his text (Walsh 2014;but cf. Hobby 1999).…”

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“…were repeatedly prohibited [31,34]. It is difficult to tell how long MS. 632 was in use: was it stored quietly away during the Dissolution?…”

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“…However, during the Reformation, power fluctuated between Protestant and Catholic monarchs, with each monarch also influencing birthing practices [ 31 ]. While certain medieval items, such as the Eagle Stone, increased in popularity as a birthing remedy in Early Modern England, birth girdles, over time, were repeatedly prohibited [ 31 , 34 ]. It is difficult to tell how long MS. 632 was in use: was it stored quietly away during the Dissolution?…”

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Girding the loins? Direct evidence of the use of a medieval English parchment birthing girdle from biomolecular analysis

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In this paper, we describe palaeoproteomic evidence obtained from a stained medieval birth girdle using a previously developed dry non-invasive sampling technique. The parchment birth girdle studied (Wellcome Collection Western MS. 632) was made in England in the late fifteenth century and was thought to be used by pregnant women while giving birth. We were able to extract both human and non-human peptides from the manuscript, including evidence for the use of honey, cereals, ovicaprine milk and legumes. In addition, a large number of human peptides were detected on the birth roll, many of which are found in cervico-vaginal fluid. This suggests that the birth roll was actively used during childbirth. This study is, to our knowledge, the first to extract and analyse non-collagenous peptides from a birth girdle using this sampling method and demonstrates the potential of this type of analysis for stained manuscripts, providing direct biomolecular evidence for active use.

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Louise Bourgeois: An Early Modern Midwife’s Observations on Female Infertility

Worth-Stylianou

2020

Women's Studies

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Marketing Midwives in Seventeenth‐Century London: A Re‐examination of Jane Sharp's The Midwives Book

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

Language, labour and ideology

Language, labour and ideology

Girding the loins? Direct evidence of the use of a medieval English parchment birthing girdle from biomolecular analysis

Louise Bourgeois: An Early Modern Midwife’s Observations on Female Infertility

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