This book explores royal couples’ experiences of and responses to fertility problems in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Situated in the history of infertility, it focuses on royal couples who were not generally infertile in the conventional sense, but who nonetheless experienced reproductive difficulties or heightened pressure to produce a child. It challenges perceptions of these couples’ fertility by uncovering experiences of secondary infertility, sub-fertility, and contemporary anxiety about reproduction which have previously been overlooked because many of them had children. Drawing on English and Scottish examples, it explores the pressure to reproduce that royal couples experienced, and how they responded to this with medical and spiritual therapies.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2025
Copyrightjahr
2025
ISBN-Print
978-1-80270-212-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-80270-430-3
ePub ISBN
9781802704310
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Borderlines
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
256
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Contents Kein Zugriff
Acknowledgements and Dedication Kein Zugriff
Abbreviations Kein Zugriff
Royal Introductions Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 22
Chapter 1. Fertile Ground Kein Zugriff Seiten 23 - 42
Chapter 2. Under Pressure Kein Zugriff Seiten 43 - 72
Chapter 3. Narratives About Royal Childlessness Kein Zugriff Seiten 73 - 96
Chapter 4. Cause for Concern Kein Zugriff Seiten 97 - 130
Chapter 5. Royal Healthcare and Reproductive Medicine Kein Zugriff Seiten 131 - 174
Chapter 6. Reproductive Politics Kein Zugriff Seiten 175 - 214
Reproductive Outcomes Kein Zugriff Seiten 215 - 220
