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Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Jennifer Evans
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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An investigation into aphrodisiacs challenges pre-conceived ideas about sexuality during this period.
Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Jennifer Evans
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-31 - Publisher: Springer

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This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, personal and institutional histories of pre
Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Jennifer Evans
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-18 - Publisher:

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It was common knowledge in early modern England that sexual desire was malleable, and could be increased or decreased by a range of foods - including artichokes
The Royal Touch in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Stephen Brogan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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First modern analysis of the custom of the "royal touch" in the Tudor and Stuart reigns.
Infertility in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Daphna Oren-Magidor
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-09 - Publisher: Springer

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This book explores the experiences of people who struggled with fertility problems in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. Motherhood was central to early