Reconsidering obstetric death and female fertility in Anglo-Saxon England (Record no. 160525)
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| Original cataloging agency | MSU |
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| Personal name | Sayer, Duncan |
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| Title | Reconsidering obstetric death and female fertility in Anglo-Saxon England |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | created by Duncan Sayer &Sam D. Dickinson |
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| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Taylor & Francis |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2013 |
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| Summary, etc. | Little has been written about female fertility and maternal mortality from an archaeological perspective. Typically debates focus on the physical aspects of childbirth, ignoring an obvious truth: the biggest single cause of death for women was childbirth. Whether death took place as a result of mechanical malpresentation, infection or blood loss, the root cause was undeniable. In this article we argue that post-mortem extrusion is improbable and that young infants and women found buried together are likely to have died together. However, most deaths would not have been simultaneous and so we build on demographic data to conclude that the early Anglo-Saxons engaged institutions which controlled female sexuality. Late marriage, cultural and legal taboos and an emphasis on mature fertility acted to limit the probability of death; however, the risk to the individual was real and each funerary party was the agent that constructed death ways to manage loss. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Taphonomy |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | coffin birth |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | maternal mortality |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2013.799044 |
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| Koha item type | Journal Article |
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| Library of Congress Classification | Main Library | Main Library | - Special Collections | 17/01/2014 | Vol 45 .No. 2 pages 285-297 | CC1WOR | 21/11/2022 | SP18119 | 21/11/2022 | Journal Article | For Inhouse use only |