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Record Number:
6611
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Title :
Weapons to Probe the Womb: The Material Culture of Abortion and Contraception in the Early Byzantine Period [The author examines surviving medical instruments designed for surgical abortions and a variety of literary texts to determine the procedures as well as the social and religious contexts for birth control].
Source:
The Material Culture of Sex, Procreation, and Marriage in Premodern Europe. Edited by Anne L. McClanan and Karen Rosoff Encarnación . Palgrave, 2002. Pages 33 - 57.
Year of Publication:
2002.
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Record Number:
4401
Author(s):
Biller, Peter.
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Title :
Confessors' Manuals and the Avoiding of Offspring [The author argues that pastoral concern over efforts to prevent conception indicates an increase in the practice and may be correlated to overpopulation].
Source:
Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages. Edited by Peter Biller and A.J. Minnis York Studies in Medieval Theology . York Medieval Press, 1998. Pages 165 - 187.
Year of Publication:
1998.
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Record Number:
1424
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Title :
Contraception and Early Abortion in the Middle Ages
Source:
Handbook of Medieval Sexuality. Edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage . Garland Reference Library of the Humanities vol. 1696. Garland Publishing, 1996. Pages 261 - 277.
Year of Publication:
1996.
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Record Number:
330
Author(s):
Heffernan, Carol Falvo.
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Title :
Contraception and the Pear Tree Episode of Chaucer's Merchant's Tale
Source:
JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology , 94., 1 (Jan. 1995): Pages 31 - 41.
Year of Publication:
1995.
5.
Record Number:
11038
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Title :
Oral Contraceptives and Early-Term Abortifacients during Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages [The author argues that pre-modern traditional medicine used chemical birth control methods in order to successfully control the birth-rate. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Past and Present
(Full Text via JSTOR) 132 (August 1991): 3-32.
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Year of Publication:
1991.