Making babies in early modern england
Auteur :
Astbury, Leah
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009602860
Date de publication :
31 oct. 2025
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Early modern English people were obsessed with making babies. Leah Astbury traces this preoccupation through manuscript letters, diaries, recipe books and almanacs, revealing its centrality to the histories of gender, medicine, social status, as well as family life. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.