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- Title
Midwives of Sixteenth-Century Rural East Anglia.
- Authors
ALLISON, JULIA
- Abstract
This study identifies more than fifty previously unrecorded Elizabethan, East Anglian rural midwives. Their professional lives are discussed in terms of licensing and oaths, knowledge, skills, caseload, travel, networking and years of practice. In regard to their family life, matters examined include marital status, spousal occupation, children, social standing, age at death and testacy. Finding and researching these midwives involved examination of a large number of different kinds of archive documents, including sixteenth-century parish registers and quarter session records. As data were examined a clearer picture emerged of these early midwives and their practice.
- Subjects
EAST Anglia (England); MIDWIVES; MARITAL status; MIDWIFERY; HISTORY; SOCIAL history; TWENTY-first century; SEVENTEENTH century
- Publication
Rural History, 2016, Vol 27, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0956-7933
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0956793315000138