"These Griping Greefes and Pinching Pangs": Attitudes to Childbirth in Thomas Bentley's The Monument of Matrones (1582)
Thomas Bentley's The Monument of Matrones (1582) is one of the earliest and largest devotional books published for women in England. Its over 1,500 pages contain prayers and meditations, extracts from the Bible, and brief lives of model women. Some items by women writers have received attention...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1990
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1990, Volume: 21, Issue: 2, Pages: 193-203 |
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| Summary: | Thomas Bentley's The Monument of Matrones (1582) is one of the earliest and largest devotional books published for women in England. Its over 1,500 pages contain prayers and meditations, extracts from the Bible, and brief lives of model women. Some items by women writers have received attention recently, but this book has not been studied for what it can disclose of the lives and attitudes of sixteenth-century English women. For example, a subsection dealing with childbirth recognizes a need for prayers specifically for women in labor and for midwives. Some of these prayers, because of their intensity of emotion and female point of view, are particularly useful documents for women's history. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2541049 |