How did medieval midwives and physicians deal with complications during childbirth? We can’t speak for every midwife, or even every medieval country, but we’re beginning to get a larger picture of medieval medicine. Thanks to translations of books like the Trotula – a manual written in Italy, around the 1100s – we know that medieval midwives and physicians hadContinue reading “Complications in Childbirth”
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Home Births in Medieval England
Most women would not give birth in hospitals until the twentieth century. And for good reason! In the medieval period, hospitals were not as sanitary as they are in developed countries today, and were more like sick houses or temporary living for the impoverished. Not a good place for mother and baby to go! Instead, women in theContinue reading “Home Births in Medieval England”
Medieval Midwives 