Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Premodern Views on Childlessness Toepfer Regina
Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Premodern Views on Childlessness Toepfer Regina This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early…
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Infertility in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Premodern Views on Childlessness Toepfer Regina
This book examines discourses around infertility and views of childlessness in medieval and early modern Europe. Regardless of status, infertility could have drastic consequences, above all for women, and lead to social discrimination, expulsion, and divorce.Rather than outlining a history of discrimination against or the suffering of infertile couples, this book explores the mechanisms used to justify the unequal treatment of persons without children. Whereas in our own time reproductive behaviour is regulated by demographic policy in the interest of upholding the intergenerational contract, premodern rulers strove to secure the succession to their thrones and preserve family heritage.
Exploring views on childlessness across theology, medicine, law, demonology, and ethics, it undertakes a comprehensive examination of 'fertility' as an identity category from the