2023
DOI: 10.1017/s0268416023000309
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Midwives’ oaths: everyday life and the law in seventeenth-century England

Sarah Fox,
Margaret Brazier

Abstract: This article explores historical and legal approaches to past society, asking what each has to offer the other. Using early modern midwives’ oaths as a case study, it examines the extent to which the law shapes everyday life and society, and vice versa allowing us to situate early modern midwives at the intersection of a number of important and competing seventeenth-century institutions including state, church, society, and profession. We argue that a historico-legal approach to the practices of seventeenth-ce… Show more

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