The birth of mankind
Subtitle: otherwise named, The woman's book : newly set forth, corrected, and augmented : whose contents ye may read in the table of the book, and most plainly in the prologue
By: [Eucharius Rösslin] ; by Thomas Reynalde ; edited by Elaine Hobby
Contributors: Jonas, Richard; Raynalde, Thomas, fl. 1540-1551; Hobby, Elaine
Series: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780754638186
Subjects: Infants; Infant Care; Diseases; Geburtshilfe; Human reproduction; Early works to 1800; Midwifery; Schwangerschaft; Reproduction; Pregnancy; Säuglingspflege
Work titles: Swangern Frawen and hebammen Rosegarten
Description: "Between 1540 and 1654, The Byrth of Mankynde was a huge conunercial success. Offering information on fertility, pregnancy, birth, and infant care, and written in a chatty, colloquial style, it influenced most other literary works of the period bearing on sex, reproduction, and childcare. Until now, this important text has been unavailable except for a microfilm of the 1654 edition. For this new annotated edition of the 1560 version, Elaine Hobby has modernized the spelling and included informative notes. In her critical introduction, she not only traces the development of the book from its German origins, but also shows how early-modern ideas about the reproductive process combined ancient, medieval, and contemporary conceptions. Combining editorial rigour with a concern for the needs of the informed non-specialist, Hobby has made available a text that will be useful to scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines, including literature, history, and women's studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Based on the 1560 ed."--P. xix.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-294) and index.

Translated from the German.