Reading between the lines: Old Germanic and early Christian views on abortion

Reading between the lines: Old Germanic and early Christian views on abortion

Authors	M.J. Elsakkers
Supervisors	M.F. Gijswijt-Hofstra
Award date	19-05-2010
Number of pages	540
Organisations	Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR)
Document type	PhD thesis
Note	Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Language	English
Downloads	Front cover Title pages Acknowledgements Preface Contents Abbreviations List of tables Introduction Article I: Genre hopping: Aristotelian criteria for abortion in Germania Article II: Inflicting serious bodily harm: the Visigothic Antiquae on violence and abortion Article III: Gothic Bible, Vetus Latina and Visigothic law: evidence for a Septuagint-based Gothic version of Exodus Article IV: Abortion, poisoning, magic and contraception in Eckhardt’s Pactus Legis Salicae Article V: Raptus ultra Rhenum: early ninth-century Saxon laws on abduction and rape Article VI: Her anda Neylar: an intriguing criterion for abortion in Old Frisian law Article VII: En kind andere bobbaburg, a reconsideration of the word 'bobbaburg' Article VIII: Anglo-Saxon laws on poisoning: an invitation to further investigation Article X: Late antique and early medieval remnants of the Hippocratic Oath: early general prohibitions of abortion Article XI: Proicit, purgat et sanat: emmenagogues and purgatives for women’s diseases in early medieval recipe books Errata Chapter 1: Old Germanic law on abortion: an overview Chapter 2: Early Christian views on abortion Chapter 3: Abortion in the early medieval Latin penitentials Chapter 4: Early medieval abortion: some final considerations Bibliography Summary in English Samenvatting in het Nederlands
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