Event Description
“Premodern Fertility: Global Perspectives” is a hybrid workshop organized by the University of Exeter.
Tuesday 24th May
Welcome – Sarah Toulalan and Catherine Rider
Claire Collins (University of Reading) – Conception and Pregnancy Loss in Middle English Texts
Jennifer Evans (University of Hertfordshire) – The Ambiguity of Miscarriage in Early Modern England
Roisin Donohoe (University of Cambridge) – Medieval childbirth
Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University) – Infertility in the Arabic Medical Commentaries, 1240–1520
Pernilla Myrne (University of Gothenburg): Voluntary and Involuntary Contraception: Gender, Slavery and Reproduction in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Law and Literature
Angela Muir (University of Leicester) – Abortion, Authority and Agency in Early Modern Wales
Wednesday 25th May
Emily Selove (University of Exeter) – The Art and Craft of Arousal in The Book of the Complete: Medieval Arabic occult and erotological works in dialogue
Catherine Rider (University of Exeter) – Magic and Reproductive Problems in Medieval Latin Medical Texts
Leah Astbury (University of Manchester) –Fertility in Early modern England
Sonia Wigh (University of Exeter) – Overcoming Childlessness: (In)fertility in Early Modern North India
Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 May 2022, 9:00-17:45 BST
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