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344 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780745618401
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 01 August 1996
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 ...
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344 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780745618401
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 01 August 1996
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 ...