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Paperback Reproductive Rituals: The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century Book

ISBN: 0367434512

ISBN13: 9780367434519

Reproductive Rituals: The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth Century to the Nineteenth Century

Originally published in 1984 Reproductive Ritual examines fertility and re-production in pre-industrial England. The book discusses both through anthropological research and reviews of contemporary literature that conscious family limitation was practised before the nineteenth century. The volume describes a surprising number of rules, regulations, taboos, injunctions, charms and herbal remedies used to affect pregnancy, and shows the extent to which...

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