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Within and without : the social and medical worlds of the medieval midwife, 1000-1500 / by Ginger Lee Guardiola.

Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell.

Ritual and conflict : the social relations of childbirth in early modern England / by Adrian Wilson.

Signs and portents : monstrous births from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment / Dudley Wilson.

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Within and without : the social and medical worlds of the medieval midwife, 1000-1500 / by Ginger Lee Guardiola.

Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell.

Ritual and conflict : the social relations of childbirth in early modern England / by Adrian Wilson.

Signs and portents : monstrous births from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment / Dudley Wilson.