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Abortion in the Early Middle Ages, C.500-900

Abortion in the Early Middle Ages, C.500-900

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Medical ReferenceMedieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1903153751
ISBN13: 9781903153758
Publisher: York Medieval Pr
Published: May 19 2017
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
First full-length study of attitudes to abortion in the early medieval west.

When a Spanish monk struggled to find the right words to convey his unjust expulsion from a monastery in a desperate petition to a sixth-century king, he likened himself to an aborted fetus. Centuries later, a ninth-century queenfound herself accused of abortion in an altogether more fleshly sense. Abortion haunts the written record across the early middle ages. Yet, the centuries after the fall of Rome remain very much the dark ages in the broader history of abortion.

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