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Table of Contents
Introduction
From Hope of Children to Object of God's Care: Abortion in Classical and Late Antique Society
The Word of God: Abortion and Christian Communities in sixth-century Gaul
Church and State: Politicizing Abortion in Visigothic Spain
Medicine for Sin: Reading Abortion in Early Medieval Penitentials
Tradition in Practice: Handling Abortion under the Carolingians
Legislative Energies: Disputing Abortion in Law-Codes
Interior Wound: The Rumour of Abortion in the Divorce of Lothar II and Theutberga
Unnatural Symbol: Imagining Abortivi in the Early Middle Ages
Afterword
Bibliography
From Hope of Children to Object of God's Care: Abortion in Classical and Late Antique Society
The Word of God: Abortion and Christian Communities in sixth-century Gaul
Church and State: Politicizing Abortion in Visigothic Spain
Medicine for Sin: Reading Abortion in Early Medieval Penitentials
Tradition in Practice: Handling Abortion under the Carolingians
Legislative Energies: Disputing Abortion in Law-Codes
Interior Wound: The Rumour of Abortion in the Divorce of Lothar II and Theutberga
Unnatural Symbol: Imagining Abortivi in the Early Middle Ages
Afterword
Bibliography
Reviews
Makes a valuable contribution to the field that offers some important correctives....[Mistry's] study should be warmly welcomed by all interested in the medieval European history of abortion. EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE
A detailed and even-handed treatment of difficult sources that offers a valuable correction to previous scholarship and a new window into early medieval religious thought. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Mistry's analysis is characterized by careful and adroit readings of an unusually wide variety of sources. . . . This book is both learned and thought-provoking. JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY
[A] brilliant cultural history of abortion. FRANCIA
Mistry's relentless focus on early medieval sources reveals their varied attitudes to abortion, complicating the picture provided by such scholars as John Noonan, who wanted to see Catholic teaching as unchanging on the matter. His book will therefore prove valuable to early medievalists interested in marriage, sexuality, and religion. H-NET
In this learned and wide-ranging study, historian Mistry examines the institutions and communities that construed abortion as a social problem c. 500-900. Recommended. CHOICE
A detailed and even-handed treatment of difficult sources that offers a valuable correction to previous scholarship and a new window into early medieval religious thought. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Mistry's analysis is characterized by careful and adroit readings of an unusually wide variety of sources. . . . This book is both learned and thought-provoking. JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY
[A] brilliant cultural history of abortion. FRANCIA
Mistry's relentless focus on early medieval sources reveals their varied attitudes to abortion, complicating the picture provided by such scholars as John Noonan, who wanted to see Catholic teaching as unchanging on the matter. His book will therefore prove valuable to early medievalists interested in marriage, sexuality, and religion. H-NET
In this learned and wide-ranging study, historian Mistry examines the institutions and communities that construed abortion as a social problem c. 500-900. Recommended. CHOICE