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Title: THE BIRTH OF MANKIND
OTHERWISE NAMED, THE WOMAN'S BOOK
By: Prof. Elaine Hobby (Editor), Professor Mary Thomas Crane, Professor Henry S. Turner
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0754638189
ISBN 13: 9780754638186
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Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date: 24 March, 2009
Series: Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
Pages: 350
Description: Offers information on fertility, pregnancy, birth, and infant care. This work shows how early-modern ideas about the reproductive process combined ancient, medieval, and contemporary ideas. It is useful to scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines, including literature, history, and women's.
Synopsis: Between 1540 and 1654, The Byrth of Mankynde was a huge commercial success. Offering information on fertility, pregnancy, birth, and infant care, and written in a chatty, colloquial style, it influenced most other literary works of the period bearing on sex, reproduction, and childcare. Until now, this important text has been unavailable except for a microfilm of the 1654 edition. For this new annotated edition of the 1560 version, Elaine Hobby has modernized the spelling and included informative notes. In her critical introduction, she not only traces the development of the book from its German origins, but also shows how early-modern ideas about the reproductive process combined ancient, medieval, and contemporary conceptions. Combining editorial rigour with a concern for the needs of the informed non-specialist, Hobby has made available a text that will be useful to scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines, including literature, history, and women's studies.
Illustrations: Includes 7 b&w illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Returns: Returnable
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