Eves Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West Riddle John M.
Eves Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West Riddle John M. In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John M. In Eve's Herbs, Riddle explores a new…
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Eves Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West Riddle John M.
In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John M. In Eve's Herbs, Riddle explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times?Beginning with the testimony of a young woman brought before the Inquisition in France in 1320, Riddle asks what women knew about regulating fertility with herbs and shows how the new intellectual, religious, and legal climate of the early modern period tended to cast suspicion on women who employed "secret knowledge" to terminate or prevent pregnancy. Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility.
Knowledge of the menstrual-regulating qualities