International audienceThe idea of birth has stimulated imaginations since the beginning of time, but especially during the period we call the Renaissance. At this ‘dawn of modernity’, ‘early modernity’ as commonly termed in the anglophone academy, physicians begin to pay scientific attention to gynaecology and obstetrics. But, also, humanists of the period take an ever more intense interest in the way that human beings are made, even to the point that they dream of the making of a new kind of Man. Doctors meditate on births considered monstruous, as in the case of Ambroise Paré, or unnatural, as with Jean Liébault, or artificial, as recounted by François Rousset in his 'Treatise on Hysterotomokie or Caesarian Birth'. At the same time some w...
In 1534 Pierre de Sainte Lucie published Jehan Du Pré's Le Palais des Nobles Dames in which the trea...
The first full study of “birth figures” and their place in early modern knowledge-making. Birth figu...
The first full study of “birth figures” and their place in early modern knowledge-making. Birth figu...
Can a girl become pregnant by taking a bath in water polluted by sperm? Is spontaneous generation po...
Can a girl become pregnant by taking a bath in water polluted by sperm? Is spontaneous generation po...
Human birth defects - 'monstrous births' - were described in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europ...
Before the experimental embryology and, later, of genetics, how could one explain the similarity bet...
"Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"—the terms designating those born by Caesarean section...
In Sicily reflections on monsters and on ‘generative stumbles’ first appear in a treaty of the secon...
The purpose of this study is to analyze some peculiar aspects on the conception of monsters and mons...
This thesis provides a history of early modern birth figures: images of the fetus in the disembodied...
Representationso f childbirth in fifteenth-century devotional and historical manuscripts are invaria...
Birth figures, or print images of the fetus in the uterus, were immensely popular in midwifery and s...
In 1534 Pierre de Sainte Lucie published Jehan Du Pré's Le Palais des Nobles Dames in which the trea...
In Sicily reflections on monsters and on \u2018generative stumbles\u2019 first appear in a treaty of...
In 1534 Pierre de Sainte Lucie published Jehan Du Pré's Le Palais des Nobles Dames in which the trea...
The first full study of “birth figures” and their place in early modern knowledge-making. Birth figu...
The first full study of “birth figures” and their place in early modern knowledge-making. Birth figu...
Can a girl become pregnant by taking a bath in water polluted by sperm? Is spontaneous generation po...
Can a girl become pregnant by taking a bath in water polluted by sperm? Is spontaneous generation po...
Human birth defects - 'monstrous births' - were described in sixteenth and seventeenth century Europ...
Before the experimental embryology and, later, of genetics, how could one explain the similarity bet...
"Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"—the terms designating those born by Caesarean section...
In Sicily reflections on monsters and on ‘generative stumbles’ first appear in a treaty of the secon...
The purpose of this study is to analyze some peculiar aspects on the conception of monsters and mons...
This thesis provides a history of early modern birth figures: images of the fetus in the disembodied...
Representationso f childbirth in fifteenth-century devotional and historical manuscripts are invaria...
Birth figures, or print images of the fetus in the uterus, were immensely popular in midwifery and s...
In 1534 Pierre de Sainte Lucie published Jehan Du Pré's Le Palais des Nobles Dames in which the trea...
In Sicily reflections on monsters and on \u2018generative stumbles\u2019 first appear in a treaty of...
In 1534 Pierre de Sainte Lucie published Jehan Du Pré's Le Palais des Nobles Dames in which the trea...
The first full study of “birth figures” and their place in early modern knowledge-making. Birth figu...
The first full study of “birth figures” and their place in early modern knowledge-making. Birth figu...