Early Modern Childbirth

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Persian Literature: Written while Travelling?

In literary histories written in both Iran and the West it has generally be assumed that early modern Persian literary works are (technically inferior) copies of Western literary works. This has been and is still a claim. Almost no academically and scientifically sound works has substantiated this claim. While there is no point in denying a European influence on early modern Persian literature,...

History of childbirth: fertility, pregnancy and birth in early modern Europe. Essay review.

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Childbirth and women's healthcare in pre-modern societies: an assessment.

(*) Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Universität Heidelberg [email protected] (**) Cluster of Excellence «Asia and Europe in a Global Context», Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Universität Heidelberg, [email protected] (***) Institute of Egyptology, Universität Heidelberg [email protected]...

Suicide in Early Modern and Modern Europe

Suicide in Early Modern and Modern Europe

an act and a subject of discourse, in the early and late modern periods. It argues that, while publications on the theme have increased considerably in the past two decades, the problematic character of the evidence for suicide has led to afocus on attitudes to suicide at the expense of empirical investigations. The latter have largely confirmed the link between social isolation and suicide, po...